Star sprinters Hima Das and Dutee Chand will get another home 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 on June 21 in Patiala.
The resolution to carry the fourth sequence of the Indian GP was taken after the AFI’s efforts to ship a 40-member group, together with Hima and Dutee, for competitions in Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan couldn’t obtain success as a consequence 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 be participating in the T Kolpakova International Competition in Bishkek (Kyrgyzstan) and the Qosanov Memorial in Almaty (Kazakhstan) later this month in view of the changed quarantine rules in those countries,” the AFI mentioned.
Hima and Dutee, who’re but to qualify for the Olympics, have been to be part of the 4x100m girls’s relay group, which was earlier deliberate to compete within the two Central Asian international locations.
The nationwide federations of Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan have knowledgeable the AFI by way of e-mails that new restrictive measures mandating 14-day isolation had been ordered for these arriving from India, no matter a detrimental RT-PCR take a look at or perhaps a vaccination certificates.
“In view of that, AFI decided to drop the plan of sending the team as it did not make sense to have the athletes go through 14-day quarantine in either location for the June 12 and 13 and June 19 and 20 events respectively,” AFI President Adille Sumariwalla mentioned.
“We don’t need to impression the coaching schedule of our athletes by making them undergo a quarantine course of with six weeks left for the Olympic Games.
“We will now deal with offering them with good competitors within the Indian Grand Prix and National Inter-State Championships from 25-Twenty ninth June in Patiala.
The listing of occasions that will probably be performed within the fourth IGP are 400m, 1500m, lengthy soar, triple soar, shot put, javelin throw and 400m hurdles for males and 100m, 200m, 400m, 1500m, 5000m, discus throw, javelin throw and 4x100m relay for girls.
Ten athletes in particular person occasions, together with star javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra — and the blended 4x400m relay group have certified for the Olympics, which opens on July 23.
Shivpal Singh (males’s javelin throw), M Sreeshankar (males’s lengthy soar), Avinash Sable (males’s 3000m steeplechase), KT Irfan, Sandeep Kumar and Rahul Rohila (males’s race stroll), Bhawna Jat and Priyanka Goswami (girls’s race stroll) and Kamalpreet Kaur (girls’s discus throw) are the opposite Olympic-bound athletes in particular person occasions.