Broke and hungry, an Indian teenager put her ill father on the back of her bicycle and pedaled hundreds of miles to their home village. Now, she got an offer to train for the Olympics.
And now to India, where a coronavirus lockdown has left 100 million people out of work. Many of them had migrated to cities for jobs and now are trying to get home. NPR's Lauren Frayer has this story about a desperate father, a bicycle and his very determined teenage daughter.
FRAYER: But their home is on the other side of the country, and Mohan was still injured. He couldn't pedal. JYOTI: There were so many things running through my mind. I was scared. Would we make it? My arms and legs were aching, but I got strength and courage from all the people we met along the way. FRAYER: He's invited Jyoti, once lockdown ends, to try out for the national team. He says what impressed him is not the distance she cycled - tourists in Lycra do that often, he says - it's that Jyoti cycled more than a hundred miles a day carrying another person on a rickety bike with no gears and on a pretty empty stomach.
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