On Friday last week, during the District Sports Office's (DSO) athletics meet at the Sports Authority of India (SAI) ground in Kandivli, a 15-year-old sprinter was grievously injured when a discus (weighing around 2kg) thrown by a discus thrower hit her on the head while she was finishing the U-17 100-m dash. She collapsed on the track and began bleeding profusely from the head. Fortunately, the teenager survived. This shocking incident was reported on the front page of this paper on October 22.

To compound matters, there was no first aid available. There was no doctor on site, no ambulance and no ice to apply on the injury. The girl's mother had to cover her head with her dupatta to stop the bleeding.