We don't believe in our federation, says archer Talukdar

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 the Rio Olympics. But later on they may say we don't want him and want a better coach -- a European or American coach," remarked the Assam-born archer wryly.

Talukdar, who was today brought under its 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.
"After he came to India in 2002 the performance of Indian archers has improved a lot. 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, scores improved and we started getting medals," he said.
"The main thing is most of the archers believe in him, as most of us have trained under him. He comminicates with us in broken English and manages well. He was with us in the Tata Academy too. He knows us, and is able to correct any technical problem we might develop.

"Whenever he suggests any changes we never hesitate to follow his advice. He knows if he changes something the changed technique will help us to improve our scores and we also know that," he added.
The 28-year-old bow and arrow exponent said one of his major aims was to gain an individual medal in next year's Asian Games in Incheon, Korea.
"This time I want to get at least an individual medal in the Asian Games in Korea. I got team medals in the last two Asian Games (in Doha, Qatar and Guangzhou, China). Then I will try to get a medal in Olympic Games also.