Tata Steel facilitates training of sprinter

Bhubaneswar: As sports lovers of Odisha pin their hopes on the young sprinter Amiya Mallick while he prepares to travel to Jamaica to train under Usain Bolt`s coach Glen Mills, Tata Steel is facilitating his training.

The steel major has provided Mallick air tickets and imported sports kit with latest sporting gears, a Tata release said today. 21-year-old Mallick will take training at Mills` Academy -- the Racers Track Club in Jamaica for four months, starting January 14. Mallick, who won the men`s 200m in National Open Athletics Championships held at Ranchi last September, said that he was aiming to give his best in 2014 Commonwealth and Asian Games. At a function here yesterday, Arun Misra, Deputy Vice President (Operations), Kalinganagar Project, Tata Steel and Suresh Chandra Mohapatra, Commissioner-cum-Secretary, Water Resources Department, Government of Odisha, handed over the air tickets and sports kit to the young sprinter, it said.