Thumbs Up coach

A nice human interest story coming out of the olympics.

Ken Wood (an Australian swim coach) sold his top-secret training methods, which transformed Jessica Schipper into a world-record breaking 200m butterflyer, to the Chinese coach of Liu Zige, who won the Olympics gold at the Olympics and shattered Schipper's world record by 1.22 second. He was the existing coach of Schipper at Beijing FYI.

"They pay for the programs," Wood was quoted as saying. "They pay good money, big money. I wouldn't help them for nothing."

Wood denied betraying Schipper, saying he hadn't trained Liu since Australia's Olympic trials in March.

Well this gets one back to dear ol Mahabharata. Anyone remembers Dronacharya teaching archery to all the princes? Eklavya was never taught by him. He got Drona's image and practiced day in day out in front of that statue. At the end, he was asked to cut his thumb by Drona as a guru dakhshina (teacher's fee) for Arjuna to remain ther best.

Well here in this case, Drona asked for money rather than a thumb. Hence the title, Thumbs Up coach!!!!