Why Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, with three Olympic golds, loves the Bollywood song ‘Nimbooda Nimbooda’ | Sport-others News
Being the absolute Track & Field royalty, that Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce is, with her 10 World Championship titles and three Olympic golds spanning Beijing 2008, London 2012 and Tokyo 2021, must have involved razor-sharp focus and tunnel vision of her running lane. But there were silly capers along the way, while she trained monkishly for her sprints. Camped in Pune for the Bajaj City Marathon as brand ambassador over the weekend, the world’s greatest woman athlete with elite medals over 15 years, recalls an obscure Indian associative memory from her school days, breaking into a proper jig at the hotel lobby. It must’ve been a silly scramble of words for her, uttered very fast at her annual day – but she decided at that moment that Indians were gifted in movement, and danced beautifully when happy. Fraser-Pryce mouths the words and the interluding drum-beats, dancing along merrily to the Ismail Darbar-Kavita Krishnamurti ditty ‘Nimbooda, Nimbooda, Nimbooda’ from Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam. “I had an ethnic Indian classmate back in school, and she wore this saree …


