FILE PHOTO - India's Dipa Karmakar reacts after a successful vault during the women's gymnastics vault apparatus final at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland, July 31, 2014. REUTERS/Phil Noble/File photo
LONDON (Reuters) - When Dipa Karmakar launches into her soaring vault at the Rio Olympics, chances are that only a handful of people will be aware that the foundations of the skill were built on DIY apparatus made from second-hand parts of a discarded scooter.
"We initially had no apparatus and had to use our imagination to improvise," Karmakar's coach Bisweshwar Nandi told Reuters in an interview in his native Bengali.
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