Olympian Jagbir to become Indias next hockey coach?

New Delhi, July 23: Olympian Jagbir Singh is tipped to be the frontrunner to take over from coach A K Bansal as the Indian Olympic Association’s ad-hoc committee prepares to brief the sports ministry next week on its plans for hockey’s development in the country. Related Stories Quarter-milers not flocking together as Beijing draws close The meeting was scheduled to take place on Thursday but has been postponed to July 30. “We were supposed to have a meeting with the sports ministry tomorrow, but we’ll now meet on July 30. We will give them a roadmap of how we are supposed to take the game forward till 2010. We will also brief them on the team management and administration for the next two years,” ad-hoc committee convener Mohammad Aslam Khan said. While Khan refused to comment on the coach issue, insiders hint that Jagbir, a... [read full story]