NEW DELHI: The nationwide camp close down and the debate surrounding WFI Chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh nonetheless raging, a number of non-protesting wrestlers on Tuesday demanded that the SAI should reopen its facilities for grapplers because the loss of right kind coaching is having an opposed affect on their arrangements for the Asian Games.
The males’s nationwide camp free of charge taste and greco roman wrestlers is held at Sports Authority of India’s middle in Bahalgarh (Sonepat) whilst the ladies’s camp is arranged in Lucknow.
The nation’s premier wrestlers, together with Bajrang Punia and Vinesh Phogathave leveled sexual harassment allegations in opposition to the Wrestling Federation of India leader and resumed their protest at Jantar Mantar on April 23.
The nationwide camp was once closed on April 8, an afternoon ahead of the Asian Championship in Astana, Kazakhstan, and has now not but restarted.
More than 300 wrestlers in 10 weight classes — senior, junior, cadet and U15 — educate at SAI middle in Sonepat whilst the Lucknow middle incorporates greater than 100 girls wrestlers.
“I don’t have proper sparring partners with me to train. We need to be in national camp. The Asian Games trials are just two months away. The SAI should restart the camp. Why should the junior wrestlers suffer,” Narsingh Pancham Yadav advised PTI from Mumbai.
“There are about 25 wrestlers where I train and most of them are junior. So obviously I don’t have proper training partners. They are inexperienced. Not much time is left for Asian Games and after that, the World Championship is also scheduled. The national camp must restart,” mentioned the championship nationwide silver medalist.
Asked concerning the ongoing protest by means of the highest wrestlers, Narsingh mentioned, “I don’t know the truth. If something like that (sexual harassment) has happened, then it’s wrong.”
Sandeep Deshwal, who competes in greco roman taste in 82kg class, additionally mentioned it’s been a fight for him because the nationwide camp close.
“I am in Rohtak since the camp closed. It’s really difficult. Jor nahi ho pa raha (The mat training has become a big issue). I have spoken to the coaches also several times but no one knows why the national camp is not restarting .”
National greco roman trainer Hargobind Singh additionally seemed clueless.
“I have spoken to SAI officials multiple times but have not got a definitive answer. A lot of time has passed since the Asian Championship in Astana (April 9-14). By this time the camp should have resumed,” mentioned Hargobind.
“It’s an Asian Games year and there should not be this big a gap in training,” he added.
The Indian wrestlers had received 14 medals on the Asian Championship with the ladies profitable seven of them.
While Bajrang Punia, Ravi Dahiya (harm) and Vinesh Phogat selected to not compete in Astana, different outstanding wrestlers, like Deepak Punia and Sarita Mor, who’re global championships medalists, may now not win a medal.
Lalita Sharma, the manager director at SAI Sonpeat middle mentioned they have got “not received any communication regarding the national camp as of now”.
The PTI attempted to achieve out to SAI DG Sandip Pradhan however a number of calls to him went unanswered. He additionally didn’t reply to messages.
Meanwhile, a girl wrestler mentioned until there’s readability she would now not like to enroll in the nationwide camp.
“I am doing fine at my training centre. The wrestlers who are sound financially, like a few from Rajasthan and UP, perhaps for them the camp is a better place because they get diet, supplements, gym and other required facilities but for us we can train anywhere,” mentioned the wrestler who didn’t want to be named.
“There has to be clarity who the coaches will be at the camp and who do we need to reach out to, in case there is an issue. Wrestling is as much mental as physical. In the current scenario, it’s difficult to say anything if I would love to rejoin the camp.
“If the camp resumes at Lucknow middle most effective, then it must be advantageous but when it is shifted to a few different position, we want to get readability on a couple of issues. Otherwise additionally now not many ladies wrestlers sign up for the camp, maximum of them desire to coach at their very own coaching centres,” she mentioned.
The males’s nationwide camp free of charge taste and greco roman wrestlers is held at Sports Authority of India’s middle in Bahalgarh (Sonepat) whilst the ladies’s camp is arranged in Lucknow.
The nation’s premier wrestlers, together with Bajrang Punia and Vinesh Phogathave leveled sexual harassment allegations in opposition to the Wrestling Federation of India leader and resumed their protest at Jantar Mantar on April 23.
The nationwide camp was once closed on April 8, an afternoon ahead of the Asian Championship in Astana, Kazakhstan, and has now not but restarted.
More than 300 wrestlers in 10 weight classes — senior, junior, cadet and U15 — educate at SAI middle in Sonepat whilst the Lucknow middle incorporates greater than 100 girls wrestlers.
“I don’t have proper sparring partners with me to train. We need to be in national camp. The Asian Games trials are just two months away. The SAI should restart the camp. Why should the junior wrestlers suffer,” Narsingh Pancham Yadav advised PTI from Mumbai.
“There are about 25 wrestlers where I train and most of them are junior. So obviously I don’t have proper training partners. They are inexperienced. Not much time is left for Asian Games and after that, the World Championship is also scheduled. The national camp must restart,” mentioned the championship nationwide silver medalist.
Asked concerning the ongoing protest by means of the highest wrestlers, Narsingh mentioned, “I don’t know the truth. If something like that (sexual harassment) has happened, then it’s wrong.”
Sandeep Deshwal, who competes in greco roman taste in 82kg class, additionally mentioned it’s been a fight for him because the nationwide camp close.
“I am in Rohtak since the camp closed. It’s really difficult. Jor nahi ho pa raha (The mat training has become a big issue). I have spoken to the coaches also several times but no one knows why the national camp is not restarting .”
National greco roman trainer Hargobind Singh additionally seemed clueless.
“I have spoken to SAI officials multiple times but have not got a definitive answer. A lot of time has passed since the Asian Championship in Astana (April 9-14). By this time the camp should have resumed,” mentioned Hargobind.
“It’s an Asian Games year and there should not be this big a gap in training,” he added.
The Indian wrestlers had received 14 medals on the Asian Championship with the ladies profitable seven of them.
While Bajrang Punia, Ravi Dahiya (harm) and Vinesh Phogat selected to not compete in Astana, different outstanding wrestlers, like Deepak Punia and Sarita Mor, who’re global championships medalists, may now not win a medal.
Lalita Sharma, the manager director at SAI Sonpeat middle mentioned they have got “not received any communication regarding the national camp as of now”.
The PTI attempted to achieve out to SAI DG Sandip Pradhan however a number of calls to him went unanswered. He additionally didn’t reply to messages.
Meanwhile, a girl wrestler mentioned until there’s readability she would now not like to enroll in the nationwide camp.
“I am doing fine at my training centre. The wrestlers who are sound financially, like a few from Rajasthan and UP, perhaps for them the camp is a better place because they get diet, supplements, gym and other required facilities but for us we can train anywhere,” mentioned the wrestler who didn’t want to be named.
“There has to be clarity who the coaches will be at the camp and who do we need to reach out to, in case there is an issue. Wrestling is as much mental as physical. In the current scenario, it’s difficult to say anything if I would love to rejoin the camp.
“If the camp resumes at Lucknow middle most effective, then it must be advantageous but when it is shifted to a few different position, we want to get readability on a couple of issues. Otherwise additionally now not many ladies wrestlers sign up for the camp, maximum of them desire to coach at their very own coaching centres,” she mentioned.