Star sprinters Hima Das and Dutee Chand will get one other residence occasion of their bid to qualify for the Tokyo Olympics because the Athletics Federation of India (AFI) on Wednesday introduced that it’ll host the Indian Grand Prix 4 in Patiala on June 21. Will do
The resolution to carry the fourth sequence of the Indian GP got here after the AFI’s efforts to ship a 40-man squad, together with Hima and Dutee, to competitions in Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan didn’t materialize on account of “changed quarantine rules” in these international locations. .
“AFI took this decision to provide additional competition to Indian athletes as the 40-member team will not participate in the T Kolpakova International Competition in Bishkek (Kyrgyzstan) and the Kyusanov Memorial in Almaty (Kazakhstan) later this month. Quarantine rules in those countries,” the AFI mentioned.
Hima and Dutee, who’re but to qualify for the Olympics, had been to be a part of the 4x100m ladies’s relay group, which was earlier deliberate to compete within the two Central Asian nations.
The nationwide federations of Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan have knowledgeable the AFI by way of e-mail that these arriving from India, no matter a adverse RT-PCR take a look at or perhaps a vaccination certificates, have a 14-day interval. New restrictive measures mandating isolation had been ordered.
“In view of this, the AFI decided to drop the plan to send the team as it did not make sense for the athletes to undergo a 14-day quarantine at any venue for the events of June 12 and 13 and June 19 and 20 respectively. ” AFI President Adile Sumariwala mentioned.
“We don’t wish to have an effect on the coaching schedule of our athletes, they should undergo a quarantine course of with six weeks left for the Olympic Games.
“We will now concentrate on offering them with a very good competitors within the Indian Grand Prix and National Inter-State Championships from June 25-29 in Patiala.
The 4th IGP consists of 400 m, 1500 m, lengthy leap, triple leap, shot put, javelin throw and 400 m hurdles for males and 100 m, 200 m, 400 m, 1500 m, 5000 m, discus throw, javelin throw and ladies For 4×100 m relay.
Ten athletes in particular person occasions, together with star javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra, and a combined 4x400m relay group have certified for the Olympics, which opens on July 23.
Shivpal Singh (males’s javelin throw), M Sreeshankar (males’s lengthy leap), Avinash Sable (males’s 3000m steeplechase), KT Irfan, Sandeep Kumar and Rahul Rohilla (males’s race), Bhavna Jat and Priyanka Goswami (ladies’s race) Walk) and Kamalpreet Kaur (Women’s discus throw) are different Olympic-affiliated athletes within the particular person occasions.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
