NEW DELHI: The ad-hoc committee of the Indian Olympic Association (IOA) introduced on Wednesday that the wrestling trials for the Asian Games will happen on July 22 and 23 within the capital.
However, the committee has but to decide the factors for the pains and whether or not any of the six protesting wrestlers will have to be granted exemption.
Following the IOA’s request for an extension past July 22, the Olympic Council of Asia(OCA) rejected the enchantment. In reaction, the ad-hoc committee convened in Delhi and determined that the pains for males’s Greco Roman and ladies’s classes can be hung on July 22. The variety for the lads’s freestyle crew will happen on day after today.
The ad-hoc committee is accountable for accomplishing trials in 18 Olympic weight classes, together with six classes every in 3 codecs: freestyle and Greco-Roman for males, and freestyle for girls.
“We have decided to conduct trials on July 22 and 23 at the Kedar Jadhav hall in IG Stadium. First we will invite the Greco Roman and women’s wrestlers and then the men’s freestyle wrestlers. We want our interested U-20 wrestlers to compete in the Asian Games trials. They will return to India on July 21 and hence we want to give them a chance to make a case for themselves,” ad-hoc panel head Bhupender Singh Bajwa advised PTI.
“I will share the criteria with you all tomorrow. We are still undecided on that,” Bajwa added.
India’s U-15 and U-20 contingents are in Jordan’s capital town of Amman to compete within the Asian Championship.
Six wrestlers — Vinesh Phogat, Bajrang Punia, Sakshi Malik, Sangeeta Phogat, Satyawart Kadian and Jitender Kinha — had asked the IOA to present them time until August 10 to organize for the trial, pronouncing they don’t seem to be in very best bodily and psychological form because of their months-long protest towards WFI leader Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh.
While Vinesh is in Budapest to compete in season’s ultimate UWW Ranking Series match, Bajrang, Jitender and Sangeeta are in Bishkek for coaching.
Sakshi and her husband Kadiyan are in the USA for coaching.
The panel had previous proposed that trials can be held in two levels the place the six wrestlers can be requested to compete towards the winners of the preliminary trials to e book their slot for the Asian Games.
However, the verdict had invited grievance from all quarters with many terming it as “biased” and “unfair”.
The ad-hoc panel will meet once more on Friday to make a decision at the ultimate standards.
“Tomorrow, the committee members will meet the Sports Minister and IOA President. We want to take their advice. It is also being deliberated that six protesting wrestlers’ names can be sent as reserves also,” trainer Gian Singh, a panel member, mentioned. .
“The best 3-4 wrestlers in each category can be asked to compete against each other in a round-robin format in August and the best wrestler can be picked for the Asian Games, but nothing is finalised,” he added.
(With PTI inputs)
However, the committee has but to decide the factors for the pains and whether or not any of the six protesting wrestlers will have to be granted exemption.
Following the IOA’s request for an extension past July 22, the Olympic Council of Asia(OCA) rejected the enchantment. In reaction, the ad-hoc committee convened in Delhi and determined that the pains for males’s Greco Roman and ladies’s classes can be hung on July 22. The variety for the lads’s freestyle crew will happen on day after today.
The ad-hoc committee is accountable for accomplishing trials in 18 Olympic weight classes, together with six classes every in 3 codecs: freestyle and Greco-Roman for males, and freestyle for girls.
“We have decided to conduct trials on July 22 and 23 at the Kedar Jadhav hall in IG Stadium. First we will invite the Greco Roman and women’s wrestlers and then the men’s freestyle wrestlers. We want our interested U-20 wrestlers to compete in the Asian Games trials. They will return to India on July 21 and hence we want to give them a chance to make a case for themselves,” ad-hoc panel head Bhupender Singh Bajwa advised PTI.
“I will share the criteria with you all tomorrow. We are still undecided on that,” Bajwa added.
India’s U-15 and U-20 contingents are in Jordan’s capital town of Amman to compete within the Asian Championship.
Six wrestlers — Vinesh Phogat, Bajrang Punia, Sakshi Malik, Sangeeta Phogat, Satyawart Kadian and Jitender Kinha — had asked the IOA to present them time until August 10 to organize for the trial, pronouncing they don’t seem to be in very best bodily and psychological form because of their months-long protest towards WFI leader Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh.
While Vinesh is in Budapest to compete in season’s ultimate UWW Ranking Series match, Bajrang, Jitender and Sangeeta are in Bishkek for coaching.
Sakshi and her husband Kadiyan are in the USA for coaching.
The panel had previous proposed that trials can be held in two levels the place the six wrestlers can be requested to compete towards the winners of the preliminary trials to e book their slot for the Asian Games.
However, the verdict had invited grievance from all quarters with many terming it as “biased” and “unfair”.
The ad-hoc panel will meet once more on Friday to make a decision at the ultimate standards.
“Tomorrow, the committee members will meet the Sports Minister and IOA President. We want to take their advice. It is also being deliberated that six protesting wrestlers’ names can be sent as reserves also,” trainer Gian Singh, a panel member, mentioned. .
“The best 3-4 wrestlers in each category can be asked to compete against each other in a round-robin format in August and the best wrestler can be picked for the Asian Games, but nothing is finalised,” he added.
(With PTI inputs)