Olympics-bound gymnast Dipa Karmakar's coach, Bisweshwar Nandi said that the Indian gymnast’s best is yet to come and her hunger for perfection would take her to places.
"She is a girl hungry for perfection. She is stubborn also and she won't stop before doing something which she wants to do. These traits of her, I have used to my advantage," he said.
"The performance at the test event in Rio was her best so far but her best is yet to come. She can do better than this in Rio," he said.
Karmakar booked her Rio ticket with a gold medal in an Olympic Test event. The 22-year-old garnered a total score of 52.698 points in the Olympics qualifying event to book a berth for artistic gymnastics in Rio Games to be held in August.
Nandi, also from Agartala, refrained from making tall claims about the Olympics and simply said his ward will give her best and the result can be anything.
"I will not say anything about the results in Olympics. I will not make any predictions about Dipa. Gymnastics is a sport different from others. It is technical as well as unpredictable. Everything depends on the day of the event, on the performance.
"The best in the business can slip during the performance and anything can happen. So, we will try hard, very hard and give our best and keep our fingers crossed," he said.
Dipa and Nandi will take a short break and spend some time in Tripura before starting intense preparation for the Rio Olympics.
"I think we do not need to go abroad for Dipa's training, we have good facilities at the Indira Gandhi Indoor Stadium in New Delhi and SAI has promised that whatever is required will be provided to us. So, we will start our preparation very soon and we can achieve our target."
