Life has not been easy over the last two months for chief national rowing coach Dronacharya Ismail Baig. He had to guide his trainees in tough conditions in Tokyo, while back home in Hyderabad, his wife and younger daughter were battling the pandemic. They were in the reserves for the Asiad that year and won a silver in the Asian meet the next year,” said Baig. Khan finished fourth in men’s single sculls, but each country gets only one qualifying quota in any one category. “Honestly, with the kind of strict protocols in place, we were worried more about getting a fever than about the qualification itself.

Source: The Hindu May 11, 2021 00:26 UTC