NEW DELHI: The IOA ad-hoc panel decided on Tuesday to grant direct entries into the Asian Video games to Olympic medallist Bajrang Punia and World Championship medallist Vinesh Phogat.
This choice was made with out the consent of the nationwide chief coaches.
In a round issued by the IOA ad-hoc panel, it was talked about that the choice had already been made for the lads’s freestyle 65kg and ladies’s 53kg classes, however trials could be carried out for all six weight classes in every of the three wrestling kinds.Though the ad-hoc panel didn’t particularly point out Bajrang and Vinesh within the round, panel member Ashok Garg confirmed to PTI that the 2 wrestlers had been exempted from the trials.
The Indian Olympic Affiliation‘s ad-hoc committee made this choice simply 4 days earlier than the trials to pick the wrestling squad for the Asian Video games, that are scheduled to start on September 23 in Hangzhou, China.
The trials for greco-roman and ladies’s freestyle are set to happen on July 22, whereas the lads’s freestyle trials shall be held on July 23 at IG Stadium in Delhi.
Bajrang, the 65kg wrestler, who was one of many six protesting wrestlers at Jantar Mantar demanding the arrest of Brij Bhushan, is presently coaching in Issyk-Kul, Kyrgyzstan.
Vinesh, the 53kg wrestler who received the 2018 Jakarta Asian Video games gold medal, is coaching in Budapest, Hungary.
The transfer to exempt Bajrang and Vinesh, nonetheless, has not gone down nicely with fellow opponents, who’ve threatened to maneuver courtroom.
(With PTI inputs)
This choice was made with out the consent of the nationwide chief coaches.
In a round issued by the IOA ad-hoc panel, it was talked about that the choice had already been made for the lads’s freestyle 65kg and ladies’s 53kg classes, however trials could be carried out for all six weight classes in every of the three wrestling kinds.Though the ad-hoc panel didn’t particularly point out Bajrang and Vinesh within the round, panel member Ashok Garg confirmed to PTI that the 2 wrestlers had been exempted from the trials.
The Indian Olympic Affiliation‘s ad-hoc committee made this choice simply 4 days earlier than the trials to pick the wrestling squad for the Asian Video games, that are scheduled to start on September 23 in Hangzhou, China.
The trials for greco-roman and ladies’s freestyle are set to happen on July 22, whereas the lads’s freestyle trials shall be held on July 23 at IG Stadium in Delhi.
Bajrang, the 65kg wrestler, who was one of many six protesting wrestlers at Jantar Mantar demanding the arrest of Brij Bhushan, is presently coaching in Issyk-Kul, Kyrgyzstan.
Vinesh, the 53kg wrestler who received the 2018 Jakarta Asian Video games gold medal, is coaching in Budapest, Hungary.
The transfer to exempt Bajrang and Vinesh, nonetheless, has not gone down nicely with fellow opponents, who’ve threatened to maneuver courtroom.
(With PTI inputs)
