Hard to believe it, but can the gender blinders be so incredibly thick that people couldn't see what was wrong with this until a child welfare group pointed it out to them? Excerpt:
On May 3, Budhia was woken up at 3:15 a.m. and started running at 4:07 a.m. to avoid the worst of the heat as he made his way from the temple town of Puri to Bhubaneswar, the capital of the eastern state of Orissa.
He ran for 7 hours 2 minutes, braving a peak temperature of 36.7 degrees Celsius, or 98 degrees Fahrenheit, but collapsed from exhaustion 5 kilometers before reaching his goal of 70 kilometers.
As soon as he had recovered sufficiently to face the cameras, he was met by the Orissa sports minister and a contingent of dignitaries from the local police brigade, which had sponsored the event.
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