India's horizontal jump whisperer Robert Bobby George eager to produce more champions

Shaili Singh meteoric rise in Indian athletics has brought the focus back on women's long jump that earlier seemed lost after Anju Bobby George's retirement close to a decade ago. While the 44-year-old national record holder, who is India's lone World Championship medallist to this day, has already professed that it's a matter of time before the 17-year-old wunderkind breaks her national record of 6.83 metres, it is hard to ignore how there's so much in common in both the former and current athletes, beginning with coach Robert Bobby George.

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