Senior Indian archer Jayanta Talukdar is hoping hoped that the national team’s Korean coach would be retained till the next Olympic Games but conceded he does not trust the Archery Association of India to do so.
“Now we have our foreign coach, Mr lim Chae Woong. Whether he will continue till 2016, we don’t know. We (archers) don’t believe in our federation as they might change him. They change like the weather,” said Talukdar — a two-time men’s team bronze medal winner at the Asian Games.
“Today they say he will be with us till Rio. But later on they may say we don’t want him and want a better coach — a European or American coach,” Talukdar added.
Talukdar, who was on Friday brought wings along with top woman archer Deepika Kumari by non-profit sports foundation Olympic Gold Quest, explained why the Korean was preferred as coach by him and most other Indian archers. “Earlier, the Indian team used to go out and participate but never got any medal. But he came and changed the technique, changed training plan and the performance improved,” he said.