AAI picks 'wrong coaches' for World Cup
In a latest controversy to hit Indian archery, governing body AAI has picked 'wrong coaches' to accompany the team to the World Cup Stage II in Shanghai from May 6-12.
The AAI has also named dope-tainted compound women's archer Anita Kumari, who had returned a positive result for propanolol beta blocker for her urine sample collected during the Khelo India Youth Games in Pune January.
Anita had made the side from the selection trials held in Bhubaneswar last month but now AAI is all set to drop the archer.
With no permanent coach in archery, AAI follows the norm to send personal coaches of the players selected for the tournament. But this time, selection of Ved Kumar and Kailash in the recurve and compound women's sections has raised eyebrows.
Kailash and Ved Kumar were active archers who competed at the the National Open selection trials for World Championship and World Cup in Rohtak from January 24-30.
"They failed to find a berth in the squad so now from back door they are entering