India’s first particular person Olympic gold medallist Abhinav Bindra on Thursday stated the street to the 2024 Paris Games will probably be troublesome and “tricky” given the shorter three-year cycle.
The taking pictures ace additionally lauded the nation’s efficiency on the recently-concluded Tokyo Olympics.
“It was a historic performance with the best-ever seven medals. There were moments of great triumph and heartbreaks, but that is what sport is all about. We have a good momentum now going forward,” Bindra stated.
He added, “I see the next Olympics cycle will be tricky, primarily because of the shorter cycle. Normally athletes get a year post Olympics that allows them to rest and recover, but this time around they need to get back pretty quickly.”
He was talking at a webinar organised by ELMS Sports Foundation.
Earlier, the Tokyo Games had been postponed because of the COVID-19 pandemic by a 12 months and the Olympics cycle was diminished to 3 years, from the standard 4, going into the 2024 Paris Games.
The athletes will now be left with a problem of getting much less qualification occasions and quotas.
In Tokyo, javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra handed the nation solely its second Olympics gold in particular person occasions.
The celebrated shooter believes that bringing in scientific strategies and making a high-performance surroundings on the grassroots stage will probably be important going ahead.
“We speak about high leaderships however I feel we have to get extra high quality within the second-level of management. We have to empower these individuals with data of tips on how to set a high-performance surroundings.
“Incorporating science, technology, engineering, analytics and medicine to athletes’ training and development not just at elite level but basing it right at the grassroots level is important,” the 2008 Beijing Olympic champion stated.
The 38-year-old additionally felt the nation’s school stage sporting system just isn’t developed successfully sufficient and must be performed in a way more significant method going ahead because it loses plenty of expertise within the transition from junior to elite stage.