to hear such words of encouragement much less coming from an olympic gold medallist and president of the womens artistic gymnastics technical committee it definitely kicks you on its a great feeling knowing that our indian gymnastics is so well received that even people abroad are aware of what its capable ofwhich one do you hold more special the bronze in 2014 commonwealth or this particular performance in riodipa has to be rio 2016 during the commonwealth games i was under immense amount of pressure i had practiced the produnova but never performed it on the big stage this time around it was the exact opposite i was under no pressure and i really enjoyed my performance in rio but to some extent i would like to give credit to 2014 cwg for my rio performance i had heard so many stories of how overwhelming it can be performing in your first olympics i however never quite felt that and perhaps that was because cwg was my first real interaction with the limelight of a grand international stage so i knew that if i could win a bronze in such circumstances rio olympics will not throw me off my feetyou were nursing a slight ankle injury during cwg but despite that you went ahead with the performance werent you afraid that it might make things worsedipa yes i had in fact suffered a hairline fracture in my ankle during the qualification round there was pain and with that the pressure of uncertainty i wanted to win a medal there anyhow back then i had never thought of competing at the olympics so there was no risk attached and i had to go ahead with it anyway it was a pothole kind of situation thankfully nothing like that happened in rio this time0300meet bisweswar nandi the man behind dipa karmakars success storyin conversation with coach nandiyou started off coaching male gymnasts to mostly been coaching female gymnasts during your coaching tenure is there any specific reason behind thatnandi gymnastics first began in india in 1962 and i began about eight years later when i began coaching in 1986 i trained the boys for a year or so but then the secretary of the tripura sports council asked me to concentrate towards nurturing female gymnasts he told me that the result of female gymnasts is zero and that i could provide them insights back then i didnt want to but i had no choice but when i gradually started training them i liked the idea that it is more challenging female gymnasts need more practice than males if a male gymnast is doing a repetition of some move 50 times the females needed it to do it at least 100 times to perfectalso whenever i used to take my students to the national camp many foreign and as well as indian coaches would say that women gymnasts dont match the level of performers from other countries this used to infuriate me