The Indian shooting federation on Tuesday promised an ‘overhaul’ of the coaching staff after the 15-strong contingent’s Olympic campaign moved from one disaster to another.
As the country’s shooters continued to belie expectations with their horror show here, reliving the Rio 2016 debacle, the head of the sport’s national governing body promised a major revamp in coaching and support staff.
“Definitely the performances have not been on expected lines and I have spoken of an overhaul of coaching and support staff,” NRAI Raninder Singh said.
Questions are being raised about why the shooters were not able to replicate their excellent showing at the ISSF World Cups at the Olympics.
“I feel something is lacking in getting our shooters prepared for these big occasions, because clearly the talent is there and we have seen it here as well,” the NRAI boss said.
However, Raninder said that not all is still lost for the Indian shooting team as it is left with a few more starts.
“Having said that we still have starts left and let’s continue to back the team and I am sure we’ll get results. Postmortems can wait till after the Games,” Raninder said.