Olympics: Indians clinch 20 medals

Indian athletes have won 20 medals, including six gold, in the ongoing 2013 Special Olympics World Winter Games at Pyeong Chang, South Korea, according to Rediff Sports. The 12-year-old Anishka Upadhyay from Lucknow,  the youngest delegate at the Games, won two gold in Alpine Skiing in the event competed by over 2,200 mentally-challenged athletes from over 120 countries. India have so far won six gold, six silver and eight bronze in the eight-day event which began on January 29 and will end on February 5.


Published in The Express Tribune, February 4^th, 2013.