Asian Games shot put champ Toor gears up to crack Olympic mark
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Tejinderpal Singh Toor.. Image Source: IANS News
New Delhi, May 19 : Tejinderpal Singh Toor, the Asian Games champion in men s shot put, hopes to achieve Tokyo Olympic Games qualification mark of 21.10 metres at next month s domestic competition in Bengaluru after missing international events last month due to pandemic. The pandemic disrupted our international competition and exposure plan. We were supposed to travel to Turkey last month but it was postponed as the Turkish government imposed a 15-day quarantine rule on Indians due to rising Covid-19 cases in India. Now our main focus is to crack the Tokyo Olympic qualification standard of 21.10m next month in Bengaluru, Toor s coach Mohinder Singh Dhillon told IANS.
India s Tejaswini wins consecutive high jump titles in USA
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Tejaswini Shankar.. Image Source: IANS News
New Delhi, May 16 : Representing Kansas State University, India s Tejaswini Shankar won back-to-back men s high jump titles in the Big 12 Outdoor Track and Field Championships in Manhattan, USA.
Shankar, 22, cleared the bar at 2.28m to win high jump gold on Saturday, but his efforts fell short of Tokyo Olympic Games qualification standard of 2.33m.
Shankar had also won the men s high jump title in the 2019 edition of the Big 12 Outdoor Track and Field Championships while the 2020 edition was cancelled due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Corona wave ruined plans to train Indian athletes for Olympics
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The exhibition of the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics torches across the greater Tokyo area has been postponed due to the worsening situation of the Covid-19 pandemic.. Image Source: IANS News
New Delhi, May 2 : The second wave of Coronavirus in India has ruined plans to prepare top athletes for the Tokyo Olympic Games, says Adille Sumariwalla president of Athletics Federation of India (AFI).
However, Sumariwalla points out that the top athletes gave a good account of themselves during the Federation Cup Athletics Championships in March. It raised hopes of a good season ahead, but AFI s road map for the Tokyo Olympics got disrupted due to a surge in pandemic in India. Foreign exposure tours for top athletes didn t go as planned due to travel restrictions put in place by several European nations for Indians and it made things more challenging to send the athletes abroad for training,