s2h Team
Photo: K Arumugam
Twenty years on, Vasudevan Baskaran does not allow the trauma of missing the Olympic semifinal by a whisker to rankle him. As head coach, he watched from the dugout on this day at the 2000 Sydney Olympics. The captain of the gold medal winning team at Moscow 1980 was on the threshold of guiding India to their first Olympic semi-final spot after that triumph which brought the country its eighth Olympic title.