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Multi-sport events often force fans to Google terms they have not encountered before. Sushil Kumar’s Olympics feats had made them look up repechage. Dipa Karmakar made them search the challenges of the Produnova vault. And as recently as last year, they read up on the rules of lawn bowls after India won a gold medal at the Commonwealth Games.
During the Jakarta-Palembang Asian Games of 2018, the Indian fans were similarly intrigued by a sport called kurash – a Central Asian form of wrestling – after Pincky…