New Delhi: When Manu Barker Her coach Jaspal Rana sits in the audience during the women’s 25m pistol event on Monday.Push boundaries with our YouTube channel. Subscribe now!As national team coach, Rana was supposed to sit behind Manu at the Field of Play (FOP), however, he had to sit in the audience due to a dress code violation. National assistant coach Wazir Singh Rathi serves as Manu’s coach in FOP.“The coach was wearing brown trousers, which is not allowed according to International Shooting Sports Federation regulations because military personnel wear brown trousers. The coach was asked to leave the FOP due to a violation of the dress code,” said Haniyeh Khandani, an international jury member from Iran who did not allow Rana to enter the FOP.Manu won the silver medal in a thrilling final that featured two penalty shootouts. However, Rana said it didn’t matter much that he was sitting in the gallery. “It doesn’t matter. The jury felt it was a violation of norms, so she made me absent. But that doesn’t change anything. I don’t think the FOP needs me,” Rana told TOI.Anjali Bhagwat win first international medalWhen the announcer at the Dr. Karni Singh Final Range announced Anjali Bhagwat’s bronze medal in the junior women’s 25m pistol event, it sounded like time travel. However, it wasn’t the Olympus rifle shooters who topped the pistol podium. Instead, she took her name from Nashik and she won her first international medal. Anjali is named after a veteran rifle shooter.“We were already Bhagwats, so my father wanted to name me Anjali after Anjali ma’am. He started focusing on shooting and later I started liking it too,” Anjali, who is in the third grade, told TOI.
