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For a few months of the year, the alpine slopes around Manali transform into a skier’s paradise. Like most kids in the area, Sandhya Thakur enjoyed her first slide in the frozen fields around her home in Palchan. It took her little time to graduate to the slopes and she soon realised the sheer thrill of storming down the mountain at breakneck speeds.
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A journey that started with domestic events soon graduated to international competitions in Iran and Japan, the latter at the 8th Winter Asian Games. The performance she holds close to heart is the ‘Best Athlete’ award that she was handed at the Senior Nationals in Solang in 2019. Through most of the year, she trains as a track and field athlete to put on another stellar performance come winter.
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