This is the trait which makes India’s chief national coach and former All England champion, P. Gopi Chand, one of the most respected and successful coaches in India’s sporting history. And, now Gopi has to his credit producing two Olympic medallists — bronze medallist Saina Nehwal in 2012 and now P.V. There was a lot of planning which Gopi made before the big medal hopes — K. Srikanth and Sindhu — left for Rio. But, despite all the unease in his own backyard, Gopi never uttered even a single word which would hurt anybody. “Sindhu’s Olympic medal cannot be the end.

Source: The Hindu August 19, 2016 20:37 UTC