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Indian shooters hire coach, pay him from own pocket

Saturday, January 30, 2010 0 comments

The men's hockey team showed the way a few weeks ago and the women followed in their footsteps. Now, the shooters have got officialdom in their sights and are proving that where there is a will, there is indeed a way

The latest message, this time to the National Rifle Association of India (NRAI), comes from six top pistol shooters who've hired a foreign coach to train them at the national camp.

With NRAI unable to recruit a coach to replace Hungarian Czaba Gyorik who left after the Beijing Olympics, the shooters have availed of the services of a top coach, with each spending around Rs 50,000 a month.

"How long should we wait? The authorities can take their own time but the competition dates won't change. Now, we're spending from our pockets to pay renowned coach Anatoli Poddubni of Ukraine for his expertise," Samaresh Jung, nicknamed 'Goldfinger' for his medal haul in the 2006 Melbourne Commonwealth Games, told TOI.