New Delhi, Mar 18:
Former India badminton coach Vimal Kumar is extremely disappointed with the way Indonesian doubles coach Flandy Limpele left abruptly in an Olympic year and said foreign appointees must be held accountable for departing without completing their tenures.
Limpele, who was hired last March, recently stepped down as India’s doubles coach, citing family reasons, becoming the fourth such foreign coach to have resigned without completing the tenure.
“It was very unfortunate and unprofessional of Flandy to leave this way. When the doubles players had qualified for Olympics and had chances of doing well, to leave in the middle of it, I was disappointed,” Vimal, who served as India’s chief national coach from 2003 to 2006 said.
“I had a long chat with him in January. He had said then that some players were not disciplined but he said he will work with them and then suddenly he left just before All England.”
Earlier, Korean Kim Ji Hyun, who guided P V Sindhu to a world championship gold, made an unceremonious exit last September. (PTI)
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