The biopic on him may be running as fast at the box office as he would in his heydays but India’s legendary athlete Milkha Singh is far from being pleased with the lack of success at the Olympics and urged that coaches be appointed on contract basis with set targets.
‘We should look for coaches who can give us results, we must appoint them on contract basis and give them targets,’ said Milkha here on Thursday. ‘We need players who can win medals for India in Olympics. One Usain Bolt has made Jamaica famous worldwide. Why has there been no Milkha Singh since 1960. Why, in a country of billion, there has been no PT Usha. In Olympics athletics is the number one sport.’
‘We should scout the talented students and open a sports academy for them.’