new delhi burned deeply by his abrupt exit as indian womens wrestling coach andrew cook is still trying to figure out what went wrong in his stint during which he did what was required of himthe american had joined the national camp in early 2019 but fell out with the sports authority of india sai and wrestling federation of india wfi after he left for seattle due to the covid19 pandemiche thus joined a long list of foreign coaches who left after struggling to cope with a system which is completely different from many other nationswhen i left we were on a high we had just crushed history with 8 medals at the asians and had a good bit of momentum heading into the qualifying events then the pandemic came within a blink everything changed now i have a sour taste as i was blindsided by this situation cook told pti from seattlei really loved india for the rich culture and the food was so amazing im still eating it here in the usa the athletes were for the most part good to me but unfortunately i dont think i would return as a coach to indiathis country has burned me pretty deeply and i dont ever want to experience anything like that again in my lifewfi had said that cook refused to participate in the online session conducted by the sai however cook said he woke up as early as 3am to help conduct the session a claim which was verified positively by sais own coachescook said he does not know where he went wrong and that it was not just a salary issuewfi sources had said that the federation did not want to pay a hefty salary to a coach who was not in the country for a camphonestly i dont know how things went wrong it was very odd i was in constant contact did all of the things they asked even attending all the classes at 3am my time it was very hard on me with no normal sleep and trying to be alert during the meetingsthey asked me to run a program for all of india and i did again this was at 3am my time it had great feedback then the next thing i hear from the media they let me go all i can think is they didnt want to pay me anymore even as small of a salary as i hadstill as of now i havent had any official message to tell me anything about my situation from either sai of wfi the system is broken in india unfortunately im sad to go but very relieved he lamentedhe might be disappointed by the way the authorities treated him but cook praised the bunch of indian wrestlers who trained under him however he doubts if the good work done by him will find continuitythe standard of wrestling in india is very good its tradition and history make it so yet the finite techniques