: His phone hasn’t stopped buzzing ever since P V Sindhu claimed the Bronze medal at Tokyo Olympics but India’s foreign badminton coach Park Tae-sang says he did feel ‘little pressure’ after being suddenly asked to train the star shuttler for the Games.
The 42-year-old from South Korea was initially hired to train the men’s singles players but started working with Sindhu after the abrupt departure of Kim Ji Hyun, following the World Championship in 2019.
“I’m really happy because this is the first time my player has got a medal in my coaching career,” Park, who competed at the 2004 Athens Olympics before taking up coaching the national Korean team, said during a virtual press conference.
“When I first started teaching Sindhu, she was already a big Olympic star. I felt little pressure but I tried. My Korean players also didn’t get an Olympic medal, so I thought I can try to get her a Gold. We failed but Bronze is also a very big medal.