The ladies’s nationwide wrestling camp, which was scheduled to begin from September 1 in Lucknow, was on Saturday postponed after high gamers expressed apprehensions about travelling amidst rising circumstances of coronavirus. It’s for the second time that ladies’s camp has been postponed. The Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) had initially wished to begin the camp within the second week of August however was compelled to postpone within the wake of COVID-19.
The boys’s camp, slated to start in Sonipat, will nonetheless begin as scheduled.
Vinesh Phogat, the most recent wrestler chosen for nation’s highest sporting honour – Khel Ratna – had openly voiced concerns about travelling to Lucknow.
Rio Olympic bronze medallist Sakshi Malik had additionally expressed well being security considerations.
“The Nationwide Ladies’s Wrestling Camp which was scheduled to be held from 1st Sept 2020 for 15 Olympic-bound Ladies Wrestlers at SAI’s Lucknow Centre has been postponed. The brand new dates can be intimated sooner or later,” SAI mentioned in a press release.
WFI Assistant secretary Vinod Tomar mentioned they had been eager to start the camp however since gamers had been anxious they had been compelled to postpone it for at the very least two weeks.
“Vinesh and Divya Kakran had mentioned they weren’t eager to journey. We had been already organising the camp for a restricted variety of weight classes, so if these gamers are prepared to return, what we may have accomplished,” Tomar mentioned.
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“If God forbid one thing occurs, the federation would have been blamed. So we are going to evaluation the state of affairs after two weeks and take a call. A number of different international locations have began preparations for Olympics and we didn’t wish to lag behind.
“However we will not do it, if gamers will not attend camp,” he mentioned. The boys’s wrestlers will resume coaching at SAI centre in Sonipat with 18 wrestlers. Three wrestlers every from six Olympic classes (57kg, 65kg, 74kg, 86kg, 97kg, 125kg) will prepare.
