Olympic bronze medallist Lovlina Borgohain can heave a sigh of relief, and so can the Indian Olympic Association (IOA) and its officials at the chef-de-mission's office in Birmingham.
A day after the welterweight category (70kg) boxer created an uproar alleging "mental harassment" over the removal of her coaches from the CWG contingent, one of them - personal coach Sandhya Gurung - was finally granted accreditation on Tuesday and a room at the Athletes Village in Birmingham following IOA's special request to the Games' organisers.
The development capped off an unprecedented turn of events, where sports minister Anurag Singh Thakur, his BJP colleague and Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, the sports ministry and the Sports Authority of India (SAI) all came together to ensure that Lovlina's demands are met with and that Gurung gets her accreditation.
Speaking from Birmingham, Gurung told TOI: "Yes I'm inside the village and all is well now. We will start training from this (Tuesday) evening. We are confident that Lovlina will win a medal at the tournament."
With her wishes fulfilled, one hopes Lovlina will be able to give her best show at the competition. Four years ago, at Gold Coast in Australia, she went out in the quarterfinals against United Kingdom's Sandy Ryan.
"She is in good shape and her mood is fine now. The 15-day training in Ireland went very well where she sparred with boxers from Australia, Ireland and England," Gurung added during the brief interaction.
The coach has received an all-access category accreditation. No other boxer - including reigning women's world champion Nikhat Zareen - has the luxury of a personal coach for the Games.
Lovlina's father Tiken Borgohain said he is pleased that the issue has been solved. "Sandhya ma'am is not only her coach; they share a special mother-daughter bonding. When she is around her, be it at training or the bouts, Lovlina gets a huge confidence boost," Tiken said on Tuesday.
This will be Lovlina's second international event after she won the bronze in Tokyo. At the World Championships earlier this year, she failed to finish on the podium and went down to Cindy Ngamba 1-4 in the pre-quarterfinals.
