NEW DELHI: Top Indian swimmers, for example federal record holder Srihari Nataraj, couldn’t compete at an Olympic Games eligibility event in Monaco last week because the French authorities didn’t cheated on the 10-day quarantine principle for these, a leading swimming officer said on Thursday.
“There’s a travel limitation for Indians because of this next coronavirus tide in India.
But we asked the French authorities to decrease the 10-day quarantine principle for its swimming team.
Since they did not concur, we needed to cancel the trip,” Monal Chokshi, secretary general of Swimming Federation of India (SFI), told IANS.
Chokshi stated that in case the swimmers do not train at the swimming pool for 10 times it would not be possible to attain excellent outcomes.
“We’re searching for two contests next month at Europe in which the period for Indians will be under a week.
If all goes according to plan, then we’d send the federal group to Europe,” he explained.
According to the program, the Indian team could contend in Serbia on June 19 followed by a second occasion on June 25 from Italy.
“After Indian group travels via the Covid-19 protocols in Serbia, it would not be tricky to go to Italy,” explained Chokshi.
The deadline to accomplish the Tokyo Olympics A eligibility mark is June 27.
Last month, Nataraj appeared in nice touch.
He also broke the national record two in 100m backstroke throughout the Uzbekistan Open Swimming Championships in Tashkent.
However, his national list of 54.
07 seconds dropped short of Olympics A eligibility time 53.
85 minutes.
“He’s got a great chance.
Hopefully, he’ll find a chance to compete in Serbia and Italy,” explained Chokshi.
Six Indian women, such as Sajan Prakash and Nataraj, have attained Olympics B eligibility marks in their various events.
According to rules of the swimming world governing body, B eligibility time does not guarantee participation in Olympics, it’s a kind of wild card entrance as a eligibility time is a automatic berth.