Taapsee Pannu's Husband Mathias Boe Quits Coaching After Chirag Shetty-Satwik Sairajrankireddy Fail To Win Olympic Medal

03.08.2024 - 11:24 sports.ndtv.com

Mathias Boe, the coach of Chirag Shetty and Satwiksairaj Rankireddy, on Saturday announced his retirement from coaching following the ace Indian badminton pair's exit from the ongoing Paris Olympics.

Satwik and Chirag lost to Malaysia's Aaron Chia and Soh Wooi Yik in the men's doubles quarterfinals 21-13, 14-21, 16-21 in Paris on Thursday.

Boe, a silver medal winner in the London Olympics, had joined Chirag and Satwik as their coach ahead of the Tokyo Olympics. Satwik and Chirag were hot favourites to go the distance in the men's doubles section at Paris, and Boe consoled them. "For me, my coaching days ends here, I'm not going to continue in India or anywhere else, for now at least.

I have spent too much time in a badminton hall and it's also pretty stressful to be a coach, I'm a tired old man," the 44-year-old from Denmark wrote on his Instagram account. "I know the feeling all too well myself.

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