Siliguri, Aug. 15 -- They say, "Never meet your heroes." Those people obviously never enjoyed the calming, charming, chuckle-a-minute company of Vece Paes, the winner of an Olympic bronze medal with India hockey team in Munich 1972 and a doctor of medicine with a pioneering role in the anti-doping initiatives of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) and the Indian Super League (ISL). Dr Paes died in his adopted city of Kolkata on Thursday at the age of eighty. Except that, leaving aside fans of a certain vintage, Vece Paes was better known as father to a tennis hero. Leander Paes emulated his father by winning an Olympic bronze medal in singles in Atlanta 1996. The bond Vece Paes shared with his son ran deep and differed, in one ...