Tokyo 2020: National rowing coach, SAI athletics coach provide glimpses of success behind the scenes
The HinduBy all means, they have untold stories even while scripting the success stories of their trainees. Just consider two shining examples - chief national rowing coach Ismail Baig and the athletics coach N. Ramesh. Not many might be aware that the Guntur-born Ismail Baig, who trained the two Olympics-bound rowers Arvind Singh and Arjun Lal Jat at the Army Rowing Node in Pune - had to summon all the courage to stay back with his rowers even as his wife was battling the COVID-19 during the peak of the second wave a few weeks ago. READ: Ismail Baig just couldn't even think of leaving the bio-bubble at ARN even for a day as that would mean breaking pandemic protocols. The rowing coach he was with his family only for a brief stay in the last six months as ARN was his ‘second home’.
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