A First for India in Women’s Discus

Adrian Dennis/Agence France-Presse — Getty ImagesKrishna Poonia during the discus finals on Saturday in London.

LONDON – With the throw of a discus, Krishna Poonia of India made history on Saturday night.
Poonia, 35, became the first woman from India to advance to the finals in discus, an event that has been in the Olympics since 1928, but has not had strong representation from the huge country.
“There wasn’t really anyone before me,” she said of female discus throwers in India.