New Delhi: hopes to join the Indian shooting contingent in Tokyo in the future, the Foreign gun coach Pavel Smirnov remains in Zagreb as another on Friday to the Olympics through Amsterdam.
The Olympic bonded team left Zagreb after completing the 20-cum-training stints in the Balkans.
All Indian contingent members were tested negatively for Covid-19 in the test conducted over the past two days.
In Amsterdam, a gun team and rifle 13 members will join two Skeet shooters – Maairaj Ahmad Khan and Angad V VIR Singh – who are practicing in Italy.
Before the departure of the Indian contingent, the Federation Shooting Croatia and Zagreb contained visitors at the farewell organized by a friendly host.
“Seeing the arrangements made by those people can say that it was just as good as a dinner party, the only thing was that it was held at night,” said the contingent member to PTI.
The Indian contingent will have a stop in Amsterdam before making a flight to Tokyo, while three members of Jaspal Rana, Ved Prakash and Manoj Kumar – will depart from Delhi.
Two other members will return to India on July 17.
“Pavel stayed back because of an effort made for him with the team in Tokyo.
So he didn’t go with the team,” he said.
The National Rifle Association of India (NRAI) has tried to get approval for additional coaches to join seven support staff who were permitted in Tokyo, at the expense of the office carrier.
“The biggest problem is the availability of flights on the day he should go.
Even though Jaspal will return to India at this time, the Federation also tried to send him to Tokyo,” said a source of NRA.
In Pavel, no one has resolved.
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The Olympics are scheduled to be held in the Japanese capital from July 23 to August 8, with shooting events starting the day after the opening ceremony and covers the first day extravaganza, which will be held without viewers because of the pandemic.
The Indian contingent has shifted based on Zagreb because it is considered safer for them to practice there when the country was rolled under the wave of the second pandemic devastating In the European Championship in Osijek, starting May 29 to June 6, before participating in PIA La World last before the Olympics, from June 22 to July 3, in the same place.
India will be represented by a record of 15 shooters in the Tokyo game.
The Indian team has eight rifles, five pistols and two skeet shooters, in addition to coaches and support staff members.