In the city of diamonds and dhandho, two gems aim for gold in Paris | Long Reads News

Nothing about Surat screams ‘sport’. Around the railway station, one can overhear people talking about bulls and bears, minutes before stock markets open. As one drives further into the city, past the textile mills and the bazaars full of sparkling diamond shops, two young men in this city of dhandho and diamonds have been obsessing over gold. And they will get their first shot at it later this month in Paris. Surat, a city with practically zero Olympic sports history and negligible infrastructure, will now boast of two Olympians —…