"I have been living with Monalisa for five years. We are happy together and as adults, we have every right to make our own decisions. We hope Parliament passes a law allowing same-sex marriages," Dutee Chand said after the Supreme Court's verdict on same-sex marriage.
Dutee Chand took two out-of-competition tests in December 2022. She has been banned for failing dope tests for selective androgen receptor modulators.
Dutee Chand made her international debut in 2012 at the Asian Junior Athletics Championships, where she won a silver medal in the 100 meters. In the same year, she also won a bronze medal in the 100 meters at the World Junior Championships.
Dutee Chand has conquered the race track with her agility and grit and is all set to participate in the dance reality show Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa 10.
Mohan's effort here was also a new meet record, bettering the 52.99-second effort of Anilda Thomas set in 2005. She had clocked 53.37 seconds in the semifinal. She was representing Jain University, Bengaluru.
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Dutee (women's 100m and 200m), MP Jabir (men's 400m hurdles), Gurpreet Singh (men's 50km race walk) and Annu Rani (women's javelin throw) have been assured of entries on the strength of their rankings.
Fellow sprint star Hima Das is ranked at 108th in the 200m and won't make the cut for the qualification through the alternate route.
The 25-year-old Dutee, who won a silver each in the 100m and 200m events in the 2018 Asian Games, was conferred with the Arjuna Award last year.
Dhanalakshmi emerged as the fastest woman of the tournament, clocking 11.52 seconds, ahead of Sri Lanka's Amasha de Silva (11.59) and Archana Suseendran (11.60) of Tamil Nadu.
Dutee says she went all out during women's 4x100m relay heats on Friday and wasn't able to fully recover for Saturday morning's 100m heats.
Graded as 'B' category event by World Athletics, the five-day event offers some of the top athletes the chance to breach qualifying standards for an automatic Olympic berth.
The women's 4x100m relay team, which will include Hima and Dutee, will fancy chances for a Tokyo Olympics berth by clocking less than 43.05 seconds in the one-day event.
For the Tokyo Olympic Games, World Athletics has set stricter qualification standards in track and field events and June 29 is the deadline to achieve a qualification mark in the respective events.
The 25-year-old Odisha sprinter is one of the key runners in national women's 4x100m relay squad shortlisted for next month's World Relays, an Olympic qualification competition, in Poland.
The AFI named a total of 20 athletes for the World Relays. It will be the first major international event for the Indians sprinters since the Asian Athletics Championships in Doha in April 2019.
Dhanalakshmi took the gold by clocking 11.39 seconds ahead of Dutee (11.58) to become the fastest woman of the championships .
Hima's performance of 23.31 seconds in 200m fell short of the Olympic qualification timing of 22.80 secs; Dutee clocks 11.44 seconds to take 100m gold.
Since the response to the inaugural Indian Grand Prix is poor, there will be direct finals, said a source.
Dutee had clinched bronze in the 60m dash with a time of 7.22 seconds at the 2016 Asian Indoor event.
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