Kayaking, canoeing teams to miss Olympic qualifiers
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New Delhi, May 1 : The massive surge in Covid-19 cases in India has spoiled national kayaking and canoeing teams participation in the Asian Olympic qualifying tournament scheduled to be held from May 5 to 7 in Thailand. It s over. All we can say is that it was sheer bad luck. As we were making arrangements to board the flight to Thailand on April 16, things started becoming complicated. We made desperate attempts to fly out of India last week, but fresh travel guidelines issued by the Thailand government to ban the entry of Indians spoiled the show, said the national team coach Capt (retd) Pijush Baroi from Bhopal.
Express News Service
BHOPAL: It is another rags-to-riches tale. In 2016, she was ferrying boats to help her father and four elder sisters for fishing in the backwaters of Indira Sagar Dam on Narmada in Khandwa district of Madhya Pradesh. Her only motive was to repay her family’s debt.
Five years down the line, the script has taken a dramatic turn. From boat to canoe, dam to the vast expanse of the Bhopal Lake, the journey has taken her to the India national camp that would select a team for Asian Olympic qualifier in Pattaya, Thailand (March 14-17). She is tipped to emerge as India’s top woman canoer and make her international canoeing debut two months later.