PT Usha accepts PM's invite to train athletes in Gujarat

October 20, 2014 13:02

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has requested Olympian sprinter PT Usha to scout and groom sporting talent in Gujarat.

Usha, who is called the Payyoli Express after the Kerala village where she was born, says the invite from Modi came last year when he was Gujarat's chief minister, but she decided to accept it now.

She will be going to Gujarat next month to begin her training camp.

The PM has chosen well since Usha boasts of a very impressive resume with four gold medals and a silver at the 1986 Seoul Asian Games. She narrowly missed a bronze medal at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics by a fraction of a second.

Usha has a training school in Kerala but she has been struggling to keep it alive due to lack of funds.

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