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India's Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games medallists (from left) Bajrang Punia, Lovlina Borgohain, Neeraj Chopra, Ravi Kumar Dahiya and Manpreet Singh at a felicitation ceremony in New Delhi, on Aug 9, 2021.
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BANGALORE - On July 30, within hours of it becoming clear that Indian boxer Lovlina Borgohain would bring home at least a bronze medal from the Tokyo Olympics, residents in her village of Baro Mukhia in the north-eastern Indian state Assam heard the sound of excavators and trucks.
The dirt track that led to the her village was paved overnight after more than 30 years of neglect.
