Santhi Soundarajan, the impoverished middle-distance runner who was stripped of her Asian Games medal after failing a gender test and left to work as a labourer, will soon be able to realise her dream of becoming a qualified athletics coach.

The pain and suffering Santhi has been subjected to will soon become a thing of the past as the Sports Authority of India (SAI) has provided her a chance to pursue a diploma course in athletics from the National Institute of Sports, Bangalore.