NEW DELHI: Amit Pamhal, Boxer World Men’s Panggar Category in the 52kg category, may have to take a flight to the Tokyo Olympics without the services of his personal coach Anil Dhankar and Physio Rohit Kashyap.
Toi has learned that their names are not looking for the official Indian contingent list for Tokyo games, which will be carried out by the Indian Olympic Association (IOA) will soon be published.
Apart from the duo, it is possible that world champion six times, the old personal coach of MC Mary Kom, Chhote Lal Yadav, might also find his name missing from the list.
It has been studied that the country’s boxing contingent will have five names in the training support staff – Boxing Federation of High-performance Director (BFI) Santiago Nieva, Head of Foreign Coach Rafael Bergamasco, Head of Male National Coach Ca Kuttappa, Ali Head of Women, Qamar and Physiotherapist Team Women’s Boxing Aayush Yekshande.
A total of nine Indian boxers have been eligible for Tokyo: Mary Kom-51kg, Pooja Rani-75kg, Simranjit Kaur-60kg, Lovlina Borghain-69kg, Phangal-52kg, Manish Kaushik-63kg, Vikas Kembaran-75kg and Satish Kumar-91kg.
Snub pushed Pamhal to be taken to his official Twitter handle and wrote Prime Minister after Tagging Narendra Modi and defense chief of staff, General Bipin Rawat.
“PM Narendra Modi Ji and General Bipin CDs, thank you for your warm expectations.
I will give it all to win a medal at the Olympics.
I am sure that coach and fisio I will accompany me to Tokyo but I might have to do it without them (translated From Hindi), “Pamhal Tweet.
It has been studied that Manish also demands his coach Jai Singh Patil to accompany him to Tokyo and have submitted a request in this case with BFI and Indian Sports Authority (SAI) before leaving for Assisi, Italy for three weeks.
Travel exposure to long training.
But the demands also have not been received as the name Patil, also missing from the contingent list.
Patil has played a key role in Manish again standing after suffering a right bicycle injury during the Olympic qualification in Jordan last year.
In the case of Panghal, a 25-year-old boxer from Haryana’s Rohtak has repeatedly insisted that his childhood coach Dhankar was allowed to accompany him to the Tokyo match.
Panghal has vocal in his request, often complains about BFI’s decision and Indian coach not to allow Dhankar to travel with him during international tournaments.
After returning from Dubai followed his participation in the Asian boxing championship, where he had lost Shakhobidin Zoirov of Uzbekistan in the 52kg summit match, Pughal had told the correspondents: “Dhankar) was in Dubai, who knew I would return with gold.
The only thing that can be charged my gold at the Tokyo Olympics will be in the absence of my coach.
I want him to be in my corner during the Olympics at any cost.
I am sure to defeat Zoirov with Dhankar guiding me during the tournament.
He has known me since childhood And I am a comfortable training below.
That’s because he is that my durability level has improved and I can fight with the same intensity and aggressiveness until the third round.
If BFI will not name it for Tokyo, I will approach sports and Sai services to enter His name.
“Panghal has traveled with the third team of internationally meeting this year K E Spain (Gublooor’s Tournament), Russia (Governor of the Cup) and Dubai (Asia meet) without Dhankar by his side.
“I really felt his absence during the Asian meeting.
I missed him in my corner for the third of my fight.
Listen, in the National Camp, I was trained by Santiago.
Nieva, CA Kuttappa, Jai Singh Patil and Dhankar.
I have learned boxing art from everyone .
Only during the international tournament that I want Dhankar to accompany me and guide me through my fight, “he added.