Another Indian athlete cuts a sorry figure

Indian athletes continue to cut sorry figure in the Olympic stage and Mandeep Kaur too could not lift the gloom as she failed to qualify for the semi-finals of the women8217;s 400m event in Beijing on Saturday.

Mandeep, who ran an impressive career-best 51.74 seconds at the 38th National inter-state athletics championships in Madurai in June, could not repeat the performance in Beijing and timed 52.88 to finish sixth in the seven-athlete Heat Two and overall 33rd.

First three from each of the seven heats and the next three fastest made it to the semi-finals of the event.