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  • ‘Believe I’m higher fencer now than I used to be at Tokyo 2020’: For Bhavani Devi, France transfer pays off

    Having gained a historic bronze medal on the current Asian Fencing Championships in China’s Wuxi, Indian fencer Bhavani Devi believes that she is a greater fencer now than when she was at Tokyo, the place she turned the primary Indian fencer to ever compete at an Olympics. The cause? Her transfer to France to coach underneath sabre grasp Christian Bauer.

    “I believe I’m a better fencer now than I was in Tokyo. My style and way of fencing has changed. I understand fencing as a game, much better now. From Tokyo, the preparation, experiences have helped me to understand better,” Bhavani advised The Indian Express on Tuesday. “The position (you stand in on the piste), the way you attack, the strategy, how you plan your tactics (is what has changed). The basics are the same: attack, defense. But how you attack is different: which moment you choose to attack differs from coach to coach. That’s a big difference for me from my previous coach (Nicola Zanotti).”

    The modified model she talks about got here after she moved to Orleans in France to coach underneath famend sabre grasp Christian Bauer in 2021. Until the Olympics, she was primarily based in Livorno the place she was working with Zanotti.

    Fencing Star @IamBhavaniDevi on the RISE🔥, delivers 🇮🇳’s 1⃣st ever 🏅on the Asian Fencing Championships🤺

    The #TOPSchemeAthlete gained 🥉on the Sr Asian Championship and en route additionally defeated World #1⃣ within the QF 🥳

    Well performed Champion!💪🏻🥳 pic.twitter.com/JfmwfKLwKi

    — SAI Media (@Media_SAI) June 19, 2023

    Bauer, who specialises in sabre, has coached many athletes to Olympic medals: from Aldo Montano (particular person gold at Athens 2004), to the Chinese girls’s sabre group (silver at Beijing 2008) and Zhong Man (males’s particular person gold at Beijing 2008). He was additionally the person behind the Russian sabre fencers at London 2012 and Rio 2016, the place the European powerhouse claimed a number of medals, together with Yana Egorian and Sofya Velikaya’s medals in Bhavani’s occasion.

    “Many things have changed (since I shifted to France), the training timing is different. We train with many opponents. We train with one of the best athletes now (World No 11 Manon Brunet). For me, the understanding of the game and training have changed,” she added.

    Initially, it took time for Bhavani to regulate to Bauer’s model from the Italian model of fencing she was already aware of.

    “It’s an enormous distinction from Livorno to Orleans: The model and the coaching strategies of the coach. It’s a special particular person, Bauer’s a senior coach. He’s a really high-level coach. The coaching is aggressive, technique is completely different, strategies are related however the best way we apply the strategies are completely different. It was an enormous change personally. For me it was very simple to adapt to Italian model (underneath Zanotti), however this was not really easy. To have consistency in the entire season was arduous. But I knew in the future outcomes will come.

    “After moving to France, I worked for every competition I competed in, just as I worked hard for the Asian Championships. It’s just that this time the results showed up,” mentioned the 29-year-old.

    The means aspirational Indian youth is venturing into newer sports activities & successful medals exhibits how our assured champions are widening their attain & horizon!
    With a #Bronze🥉, @IamBhavaniDevi turns into 1st Indian to win a medal at Asian #Fencing Championships!

    Congratulations Bhavani! pic.twitter.com/5LMIzL3Adk

    — Hardeep Singh Puri (@HardeepSPuri) June 19, 2023

    Bhavani’s path to bronze went by way of world champion and World No 1 Emura Misaki, who she beat 15-10 within the quarter-finals. Bhavani had by no means crushed the Japanese fencer of their previous three conferences on the piste.

    “The most important thing I wanted to do against Misaki was fight till the end. I tried to avoid the same mistakes from the last time I played against her at the previous Asian Championship. I just wanted to be in rhythm and have good control on the piste. That worked. I was able to maintain the distance and the timing,” she recalled.

    Her win over Misaki was not with out drama. She was main 8-2 in opposition to the Japanese fencer at one level, however in just a few swishes of the blade, the scores had been stage at 10-10.

    Immense gratitude & delight for successful India’s 1st-ever medal at Senior Asian Fencing Championship 2023! Standing on the rostrum was emotional.Despite a bronze within the semifinals,this fuels my confidence to work more durable and make our nation proud.Grateful for all assist & needs🙏🇮🇳 pic.twitter.com/s8ZHcclKrz

    — C A Bhavani Devi (@IamBhavaniDevi) June 19, 2023

    “In fencing something can occur. When it turned 10-10, emotionally I used to be just a little insecure as a result of she coated the lead from 2-8. It was an enormous comeback for her. But I didn’t need to quit. I attempted to go for oblique assaults, counter assaults. It labored as I received 5 factors in a row.

    “This medal is very special for me. For a country like India in fencing we always work for ranking improvement, or to reach some Round 32 or Round 64. At some point we had to break this pattern, go on the podium! This is the biggest achievement for Indian fencing after me making it to the Olympics. This medal overall has given me more confidence. It makes me believe in myself and the work I do.”

  • Neeraj Chopra might miss National Games 2022 after gruelling season and groin harm

    Olympic Champion javelin star Neeraj Chopra’s participation within the upcoming National Games appears uncertain, as he’s coming off a groin harm and a gruelling season.

    Neeraj Chopra might miss National Games 2022 after battling groin harm (Reuters Photo)

    HIGHLIGHTSNeeraj Chopra’s participation in National Games appears uncertainNational Games can be held in Gujarat from September 29 to October 12The National Games are being held after a spot of seven years

    The Indian Olympic Association might have issued a directive, however Olympic champion Neeraj Chopra’s participation within the upcoming National Games appears uncertain. Neeraj is coming off a groin harm and a grueling season as he grew to become the primary Indian to win the celebrated Diamond League Finals title in Zurich.

    The National Games can be held throughout cities in Gujarat from September 29 to October 12.

    ”The National Games are approaching. I’m simply getting back from a groin harm, and I could not have the ability to prepare for one or two weeks. So I’m primarily focussed on subsequent 12 months,” Chopra instructed reporters. With the IOA making it necessary for the nation’s high athletes to participate within the Games, many sports activities individuals might should rejig their coaching schedules.

    The IOA directive got here after Home Minister Amit Shah launched the mascot and the anthem for the Games, which Sports Minister Anurag Thakur mentioned can be the ”greatest and grandest” ever.

    The National Games are being held after a spot of seven years. The groin concern had compelled Chopra to skip the Commonwealth Games in July-August, proper after the World Championships within the USA, the place he had claimed a silver medal.

    But Chopra had made a spectacular return from the one-month harm lay-off by successful the Lausanne leg of the Diamond League sequence on August 26 and qualifying for the Finals right here. He had turn into the primary Indian to clinch a Diamond League meet title in Lausanne along with his third career-best throw of 89.08m.

    In Zurich, Chopra started with a foul however jumped to the highest spot with a throw of 88.44m — his fourth profession greatest — in his second try, and that turned out to be his successful effort. He had 88.00m, 86.11m, 87.00m, and 83.60m in his subsequent 4 throws.

    Olympic silver medallist Jakub Vadlejch of the Czech Republic completed second with a greatest throw of 86.94m which he registered, on his fourth try. Julian Weber of Germany was third with a better of 83.73m.

    — ENDS —

  • Dutch Athletics crew member at 2016 & 2020 Olympics blames low-cost hen after testing constructive for doping

    Dutch 4×100 relay Solomon Bockarie, who examined constructive for the expansion hormone GHRP-2 throughout an out-of-competition verify earlier final month, has insisted that he didn’t devour any banned substance to his data.

    “I don’t know how this product got into my body,” Bockarie was quoted by the Netherlands public broadcaster, NOS. “I only know one thing for sure. And that is that I have not used doping. If anyone is vehemently against using banned stimulants, it’s me.”

    “I have a lot of questions about this check and the results,” stated Bockarie. “Let me emphasize that an athlete is at all times responsible for the substances found in his body. But in this case, so much is unclear that I would like some clarification.”

    A report from NOS additional advised that Bockarie’s spokesperson Robbin Pieterman speculates that the hormone ended up in his system via low-cost hen he ate.

    Oh boy, what a day it was yesterday! Broke the ten.2 barrier (10.13 SF), made the ultimate and certified for Rio! #100m pic.twitter.com/VfJ1A6sw0f

    — Solomon Bockarie (@SolomonBockarie) July 8, 2016

    According to Pieterman, the athlete examined constructive after he consumed the hen purchased from the market in The Hague.

    “It could be that this chicken had been treated with hormones and that he got this hormone in his body from eating this chicken,” Pieterman stated. “Fortunately, Solomon still has pieces of this chicken at home. We will try to have it examined to show that the hormone entered Solomon’s body through this route.”

    Bockarie was a part of the Netherlands crew on the 2016 and the 2020 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro and Tokyo respectively.

  • BCCI’s Rs 18-crore Olympics invoice contains marketing campaign music by Mohit Chauhan, mementoes for Indian athletes

    Rs 7 crore for the commercial company that labored on the promotion of Tokyo Olympics in India; Rs 98 lakh for Olympics marketing campaign T-shirts; Rs 70 lakh for singer Mohit Chauhan who composed and sang the inspirational anthem, “Lakshya tere saamne hai, jeet ke aana (The target is in front of you, return as a winner)”, for the Indian contingent. These type part of the BCCI’s contribution to different sports activities in the course of the Covid-19 pandemic.

    In June 2021, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) had determined to increase assist to the Indian Olympic Association (IOA). “The summer Olympics is scheduled to be held in Tokyo from July 23 to August 8, 2021. The BCCI has decided to support Indian athletes in every form and manner it can. In that spirit, based on the request received from the IOA/ MYAS (Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports), the Apex Council of BCCI has decided to extend support to the Indian Olympic Association and has pledged a monetary gesture of Rs 10 crore,” it had stated in a press release.

    At its first post-pandemic bodily assembly on Thursday, the BCCI Apex Council tabled the break-up of its non-cricketing expenditure including as much as Rs 22 crore.

    The Board listed whole Olympics’ bills of over Rs 18 crore, together with Rs 68 lakh to an occasion administration firm, Rs 4 crore for money awards for medalists, and Rs 5 crore for buy of ‘PM Cares’ mementos for athletes.

    Besides these, the BCCI additionally listed Rs 3.8 crore for funding oxygen concentrators on the peak of the pandemic.

    The Apex Council assembly, chaired by BCCI president Sourav Ganguly and attended by secretary Jay Shah, treasurer Arun Dhumal, joint secretary Jayesh George amongst others, formally permitted these bills.

    “It is our responsibility to help other sports. All the members agreed to this expenditure,” stated a BCCI official on situation of anonymity.

    The Indian board’s new structure, drafted by the Supreme-Court nominated Lodha Committee, additionally directs the cricket board to assist different sports activities.

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    At its assembly, the Apex Council additionally permitted a rise within the prize cash for home cricket tournaments. At current, the winners of the Ranji Trophy, the nation’s premier home cricket match, get Rs 2 crore. The new prize cash is about to be introduced quickly.

    “The Apex Council has decided to give powers to office-bearers to decide on the revised prize money,” stated a BCCI official. The choice follows the windfall of Rs 48,390 crore from the sale of IPL media rights.

    There have been additionally discussions on introducing the Decision Review System (DRS) in home video games.

  • Sindhu as soon as once more fails to crack Tai Tzu code, this time in Malaysia Masters

    Two-time Olympic medallist shuttler P V Sindhu went all out however couldn’t discover a solution to get previous her nemesis Tai Tzu Ying, struggling yet one more defeat within the quarterfinals to bow out of the Malaysia Masters Super 500 event right here on Friday.

    Every week after being outwitted by the Chinese Taipei nice at Malaysia Open, seventh seed Sindhu as soon as once more completed quick in opposition to the world no. 2, dropping 13-21 21-12 12-21 in a 55-minute conflict. It was Sindhu’s seventeenth profession defeat to the Tokyo Olympics silver medallist, who has prevailed over the Indian in all their final seven conferences. The final time Sindhu had defeated Tzu Ying was en path to her 2019 World Championship gold in Basel.

    It was enterprise as normal for Tzu Ying as she rode on her precision and misleading recreation to get previous a preventing Sindhu, who as soon as once more flattered to deceive. Tzu Ying made her intent clear from the beginning, as after an preliminary shut duel, she managed to tug away from 10-9 to leap to 15-9 and held her fort to take lead within the match.

    Despite an excellent comeback in 2nd recreation in opposition to #TaiTzuYing of Chinese Taipei, @Pvsindhu1 bows out within the quarterfinals of #MalaysiaMasters2022.

    Final rating: 13-21, 21-12, 12-21#MalaysiaMastersSuper500#Badminton pic.twitter.com/dMRSFVvPJH

    — BAI Media (@BAI_Media) July 8, 2022

    After the change of ends, Sindhu appeared to search out her bearings as she galloped to a 11-4 lead after which saved a agency grip on the rallies to roar again into the competition. The Indian carried her momentum into the decider, main 7-3 at one stage and for a second it appeared, maybe, she has cracked the Tzu Ying code however the second seed as soon as once more managed to show the tables round, grabbing a two-point cushion on the last break.

    It was a one-way site visitors after the interval as Sindhu’s unforced errors coupled together with her rival’s brilliance noticed the match tilt fully in favour of Tzu Ying, who zoomed to 19-11. Another rally ended with the shuttle dropping proper on the baseline as Tzu Ying held eight match factors and transformed it when Sindhu went to the web once more

  • Kevin Durant asks for commerce from Brooklyn Nets

    Kevin Durant could also be taking his quest for extra titles elsewhere. Durant has requested a commerce from the Brooklyn Nets, in response to an individual with direct data of the choice that undoubtedly can have groups scrambling to place collectively provides for the perennial All-Star.

    The Nets have been working with Durant to discover a commerce companion, and he has a number of groups on his most popular record, in response to the one that spoke to The Associated Press on situation of anonymity Thursday as a result of neither the participant nor Brooklyn revealed any particulars publicly.

    ESPN first reported Durant’s commerce request, citing Phoenix and Miami as two of his most popular locations. The bombshell got here simply hours earlier than the NBA’s free-agent interval for this summer time was set to start. The information additionally got here precisely three years to the day after Durant introduced that he was becoming a member of Brooklyn in a social-media put up — a transfer that got here June 30, 2019.

    FILE – In this Aug. 21, 2016, file picture, United States’ Kevin Durant celebrates after the group gained gold in males’s basketball on the Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. Durant and coach Gregg Popovich will lead the U.S. group into the Tokyo Olympics because the Americans attempt to safe a fourth consecutive gold medal.(AP Photo/Matt York, File)

    Durant is a 12-time All-Star, four-time scoring champion, three-time Olympic gold medalist and two-time NBA champion — these rings coming with Golden State, the group he was with earlier than becoming a member of Brooklyn. He has 4 years and almost $200 million remaining on his contract, which implies that it might take a haul of gamers, draft picks or presumably each for a group to amass him.

    Durant has performed 14 seasons, not together with one yr when he sat out whereas recovering from a torn Achilles. He has averaged 27.2 factors in his profession — over that span, solely LeBron James, at 27.3 factors per sport, has averaged extra.

    And even at his age — Durant will flip 34 on Sept. 29, across the time coaching camps open this fall — he’s nonetheless top-of-the-line gamers within the sport, his 6-foot-10 body making his soar shot virtually unstoppable by any defender.

    Durant spent three seasons with Brooklyn, not enjoying within the first of these years whereas he recovered from the Achilles damage. He averaged 29.9 factors in 55 video games final season, after main the U.S. to Olympic gold on the Tokyo Games final summer time.

    Unless he modifies his thoughts and stays, his departure might be an enormous blow to the Nets. At this time final yr, the Nets had been banking on contending for a championship with a core led by Durant, James Harden and Kyrie Irving.

    That plan didn’t come near actuality. Irving missed a lot of the yr due to his refusal to be vaccinated towards COVID-19; he was ineligible to play in residence video games for almost all of the season. Harden wound up getting traded to Philadelphia for Ben Simmons, who didn’t play in any respect final season. Durant led Brooklyn into the playoffs, the place it was swept within the first spherical by eventual Eastern Conference champion Boston.

    And the offseason hasn’t precisely been calm for the Nets, both. Irving’s future was a significant query mark till he determined to train his $37 million possibility earlier this week to stay with Brooklyn this coming season. Now, Durant needs out, and the Nets will both have to alter his thoughts or go forward with strikes that may overhaul their group.

  • Tokyo Olympics documentary movie debuts in Japan; heads to Cannes

    By Associated Press

    TOKYO:  The documentary movie concerning the pandemic-delayed Tokyo Olympics premiered on Monday, proven to reporters and different invited friends within the Japanese capital.

    The work of Japanese director Naomi Kawase, the 120-minute movie appears on the Olympics primarily from the perspective of the athletes — however not simply the successful athletes.

    After Tokyo, the movie might be proven on Wednesday on the Cannes Film Festival within the Bunuel Theater, named for Spanish-born iconoclastic filmmaker Luis Bunuel.

    “The Olympics are not just about getting prizes, being first and going after a victory that is right before you in the moment,” Kawase stated in a current interview. “I tried also to depict the pursuit of becoming winners in life.”

    Kawase has additionally made one other movie occasions away from the athletes, which referred to as “Side B.” It will debut in Japanese cinemas on June 24. The movie proven on Monday will open in some Japanese cinemas starting on June 3.

    Kawase stated she made the movie in two elements as a result of, after the Games had been postponed by the pandemic, her topic grew to become too complicated.

    The movie, which is just in Japanese until audio system are utilizing different languages, focuses a lot of its consideration on athletes from Japan, and feminine athletes from throughout. It additionally appears at refugee athletes, athletes who’ve defected, and athletes competing as moms who introduced their infants to Games.

    The movie targets a cross part of sports activities, significantly judo, softball, browsing, girls’s basketball, and skateboarding. For essentially the most half, it steers away from the medal ceremonies, the flag waving and who received — and who misplaced — and prioritizes the drama of competing.

    Yiannis Exarchos, the CEO of the Olympic Broadcasting Services, tried to sum up the mission of the documentary, talking within the closing minutes of the movie earlier than the credit rolled.

    He stated Olympic athletes usually “do something completely unexpected. This is a moment of genius. Yes, we need to go through all these exercises in order to be able to see the world in a different way. Even for one millisecond.”

    The documentary confirmed flashes of the controversy that dogged the Tokyo Games with protesters asking for a cancellation, and scenes that questioned the knowledge of holding the Games within the midst of a pandemic.

    The “Side B” model is predicted to cowl extra of the issues together with the resignation of Yoshiro Mori as president of the native organizing committee.

    Mori, a former Japanese prime minister, stepped down 5 months earlier than the Olympics opened after making derogatory feedback about girls, saying they “talk too much.”

    The documentary of the 1964 Tokyo Olympics by Kon Ichikawa, titled “Tokyo Olympiad,” is mostly thought to be probably the most essential within the style. Also in that class is Leni Riefenstahl’s “Olympia” from the 1936 Berlin Games.

    Kawase stated she was honored to observe within the footsteps of Ichikawa and tried to indicate what was seen, and likewise what’s past being seen.

    “I was moved by how human beings achieve the pinnacle of physical beauty,” Kawase stated. “I felt they were so beautiful watching them; all the athletes, not just the winners. And the time they devoted to get there was also beautiful.”

    The Kawase documentary is titled merely the “Official Film of the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020.”

    She was named in 2018 to direct the movie, which appears briefly on the one-year postponement introduced in March of 2020 and the runup to the opening ceremony — largely with out followers on July 23, 2021 — and the closing on Aug. 8.

    In a synopsis, Cannes stated the movie took 750 days to shoot with 5,000 hours of filming.

    Cannes stated it captures “not only the athletes gathered from all over the world, but also their families, people involved in the Games, volunteers, medial personnel, and protesters shouting for the cancellation of the Olympics. The film shows the passion and anguish that came out of these Olympic Games.”

    Kawase is extremely acclaimed and have become the youngest director to obtain the Camera d’Or prize on the Cannes Film Festival together with her 1997 movie “Suzaku.”

    Her finest recognized current movies are “Sweet Bean” and “Still the Water.”

    The documentary is financed by the International Olympic Committee and the native organizing committee, and is a requirement underneath the internet hosting contract.

    Toshiro Muto, the CEO of the Tokyo organizing committee, stated when Kawase was launched 4 years in the past that the IOC owns the copyright to the movie and “has the right to make key decisions in the creation of the film.”

    Kawase stated she has been affected by Russia’s invasion or Ukraine, asking herself the that means of leisure amid the killing in struggle.

    “I hope when people see this film 50 years from now, 100 years from now,” Kawase said, “they will understand the importance of protecting that bit of happiness — so small it can fit in the palm of your hand.”

  • 2 prime athletes fail dope take a look at; dropped from camp, face ban

    India’s drive towards doping in sports activities has obtained a setback with two of its track-and-field Tokyo Olympians, a male and a feminine, failing dope assessments for utilizing banned anabolic steroids and going through bans as much as 4 years, The Indian Express has learnt.

    The Athletics Federation of India (AFI) was tight-lipped concerning the circumstances however a number of sources confirmed that the 2 prime athletes have been dropped from the nationwide coaching camp.

    “Two track-and-field athletes have tested positive and they are no longer part of the national camp,” a nationwide coach mentioned, chatting with this newspaper on situation of anonymity.

    India is ranked third in doping, in response to the most recent World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) report launched in 2021. With 152 circumstances throughout disciplines, the nation is marginally under leaders Russia (167) and Italy (157) on this listing.

    The feminine athlete below the scanner was anticipated to win a medal on the Commonwealth Games and Asian Games this 12 months, and was a contender to enter the World Athletics Championships finals. Buoyed by her meteoric rise and medal potential, the AFI had additionally scouted for a overseas coach after the Tokyo Olympics.

    The male athlete’s samples had been collected throughout an out-of-competition take a look at. Although his present kind has dipped, he stays a global medallist.

    Both had been a part of the Target Olympic Podium Scheme, below which athletes obtain funding from the sports activities ministry, at numerous phases of their profession.

    At the home stage, too, the scourge of doping has seen an Under-23 medal winner within the ladies’s 100 metres, who was labelled as a future star, and a podium finisher amongst males on the Open Nationals testing constructive.

    Both of them obtained lowered three-year bans after admitting to anti-doping rule violations as an alternative of showing for disciplinary panel hearings.

  • Sreejesh in race for World Games Athlete of the Year award

    Olympic bronze medal successful India males’s hockey goalkeeper PR Sreejesh is in race to win the celebrated World Games Athlete of the Year award after being nominated for the honour.
    The winner might be chosen following a web-based voting course of which begins on January 10 and ends of January 31.
    Elected FIH Goalkeeper of the Year for 2021, Sreejesh — a triple Olympian with over 240 worldwide appearances — has loved an distinctive 12 months, producing his easiest type to assist his group declare a historic bronze on the Tokyo Games.

    #FIH The World Games Athlete of the Year: PR Sreejesh within the race https://t.co/Dy9j2DOGlB
    — World Hockey News (@WorldHockeyNews) January 4, 2022

    If Sreejesh manages to win, he would be the second hockey participant from the nation to bag the title after ladies’s group skipper Rani Rampal.

    Rani grew to become the first-ever hockey participant to win the award in 2020.
    A complete of 24 athletes have been nominated for the award.
    From the record of 24, the ten finest, as measured on January 23, will transfer on to the ultimate, the voting for which can proceed till January 31.

  • Bajrang begins 26-day coaching camp in Moscow forward of busy season

    Tokyo Olympics bronze medal-winning wrestler Bajrang Punia reached Moscow on Monday for a 26-day pre-season coaching camp scheduled until January 21.
    This is Bajrang’s first coaching stint after the efficiency in Tokyo.
    “This is my first training camp after the Olympics and I’m hoping this turns out to be a very good one,” talked about Bajrang from Russia in a press release.

    “I’ve chosen Russia as its wrestlers win the most medals in the Olympic Games and World Championships. I will draw benefit from training with the experienced wrestlers here.”
    The Sports Ministry’s Mission Olympics Cell (MOC) authorized his journey at an general value of Rs. 7.53 lakh.
    Jitender and Anand Kumar have accompanied Bajrang as his sparring associate and physiotherapist respectively.

    Bajrang is about to compete in worldwide meets together with UWW Ranking occasions, the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham in addition to the 2022 Asian Games in Hangzhou, China.
    “I have to compete in Ranking Series in Italy and Turkey this February and then the Asian Championships in Mongolia in April. I’m going to give my best as I aim is to change the colour of my medal in Paris 2024,” Bajrang added.