Cycling news - Fifteen-year-old Indian girl who cycled 1200km carrying sick father offered trial

According to the Press Trust of India, the teenager Jyoti Kumari, with her ailing father on the rear carrier, took a week to cycle 1200km from Gurugram, south of the capital Delhi, east to her father's home town of Darbhanga in the state of Bihar, which borders Nepal.

And Cycling Federation of India Chairman Onkar Singh admitted that should Jyoti pass the trial, she could become a trainee at the National Cycling Academy in Delhi.

"We have told her that she will be called to Delhi next month as soon as the lockdown is lifted," Singh told PTI.

“We will make her sit on the computerised cycle we have at the academy and see if she satisfies the seven or eight parameters to get selected. After that she can be among the trainees and she will not have to spend anything.”