DARJEELING, July 25: Olympian and veteran football player Chandan Singh Rawat has died. Rawat who would turn 83 tomorrow was ailing from heart problems for the past one year and was bed ridden since February after he fell down and cracked his hipbone. He was admitted to a Siliguri nursing home on Thursday when his condition grew serious.
The octagenerian sportsman born and brought up in Dehradun played in the Indian football team at the Helsinki Olympics in 1952. He settled down in Darjeeling in 1957. “It is a great loss for the nation. We are proud he was our father. Though he was invited to play for many foreign countries he just wanted to play for his own country,” his daughter Mrs Manju Rawat said
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