Chanu's coach credits decision to train in US for triumph ANI 27 Jul 2021, 03:18 GMT+10 New Delhi [India], July 26 (ANI): India's Olympic silver medallist Mirabai Chanu's decision to head to the US to train helped the weightlifter perform well at the ongoing Tokyo Games, according to her coach Vijay Sharma. Chanu who returned to India to a warm reception on Monday at the Delhi Airport after her superb silver-medal winning performance in the Women's 49kg category at the Olympics, which opened the country's medals tally on Saturday. "We started training after the first lockdown. We requested TOPS in October that we wanted to go and within one week, TOPS cleared our travel and sanctioned Rs 60 lakh for training," Sharma, who accompanied Chanu to the Olympics told ANI on their return.