Ace shooter Heena Sidhu hit out at India’s chief pistol coach Pavel Smirnov on Thursday, saying he is not competent and does not have any technical know-how of the game.
“I know that the coach (Smirnov) has never been able to answer my questions. He doesn’t have the technical know-how. It’s not just me, even Jitu (Rai) said that to me,” Heena told PTI in an interaction here.
“It was not just me and Jitu, most of the shooters find him technically weak. I don’t want to train under somebody like him. I did work with him for few a days because my federation asked me, saying ‘just give him a chance and see if it works for you’ but it was sort of miserable, I don’t want to work with him. I don’t find him competent enough,” the 27-year-old shooter added.
Heena and Jitu had clinched the gold medal for India in the mixed team 10m Air Pistol (demo) event at the Shooting World Cup in Gabala.
Heena currently trains with her coach and husband, Raunak Pandit.
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