Word: pudukkottai
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Despite rumors of an attempted suicide (which Soundarajan has denied) and frustration over her interrupted athletic career, Soundarajan has found a new calling in coaching, sounding content in a recent interview. She was attending a track meet in Pudukkottai, where she returned after losing her medal. "It was difficult but now finally I feel O.K.," she says with a laugh. The state government of Tamil Nadu awarded her a television set and a cash prize as a show of support after Doha. Soundarajan took that money - a little more than $30,000 - and in 2007 started a sports academy...
...Soundarajan says. "I am physically and mentally totally broken." She would have loved to compete for India in last year's Olympic Games, but says she was too scared to return to competitive running. "We did try to convince her many times to get back on the tracks," says Pudukkottai district sports officer Kannuswamy. "But she even refuses to talk about it. And now it's too late...
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