MUMBAI (Reuters) – Middle-distance runner Santhi Soundarajan, who was stripped of her Asian Games medal after failing a gender test, was in hospital on Wednesday following an apparent suicide bid, police said.
“It is a possible suicide attempt,” police superintendent Kapil Kumar told Reuters. “The doctors are yet to confirm what she consumed.
“She is out of danger now and is not accepting the version of suicide now,” he added.
Local athletics official Jehangir told Reuters Soundarajan had taken pesticide in her home town in Tamil Nadu.
Published – September 2007
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