Indian Athletes Get Into Training Regime Ahead of the Tokyo Olympics

Pre-Olympic training for Indian athletes…get the details…

Tuesday, 20th July 2021

Indian athletes to the Tokyo Olympics this year, have hit the ground and started their training sessions days before the Summer Games are to commence.

Table tennis players G Sathiyan and A Sharath Kamal, ace shuttlers PV Sindhu and B Sai Praneeth started their training on Monday.

Apart from the table tennis and badminton contingent, others including archery pair Atanu and Deepika took off to Yumenoshima Park where they began sharpening their skills with the bow and arrow, paddlers Sathiyan and Sharath Kamal also began their preparations in the lookout for an elusive Olympic medal in this particular segment.

Pranati Nayak, India’s entry in the field of gymnastics was also seen hitting the training ground under the supervision of Coach Laxman Manohar Sharma.

Badminton players Sindhu and Praneeth trained under the guidance of singles coach Park Tae Sang while the men’s doubles players Chirag Shetty and Satwiksairaj Rankireddy went into their training schedule under the keen eyes of coach Mathias Boe.

Among the first batches to land in Tokyo for the big games was sailor V Sarvanan who already took to his training schedule from Sunday. The sailing event will be represented by others from India like, Nethra Kumanan, KC Ganapathy and Varun Thakker, all of whom reached Tokyo last week.

On Saturday morning, contestants representing the country in the rowing event, Arjun Lal Jat and Arvind Singh, arrived here and went through their initial training session under the supervision on chief national coach Ismail Baig on Sunday at the Sea Forest Waterway in Tokyo Bay. The pair will participate in the men’s lightweight double scull.

The initial set of athletes had landed in the Japanese capital on Sunday morning and directly checked into the Games Village having undergone all necessary Covid-19 related protocols.

The Games organizing body had laid down specific rules and regulations especially in view of the Covid-19 situation, and athletes that arrived from India were required to undergo a mandatory three-day quarantine period upon landing in Tokyo. This requirement was however; later repealed and Indian athletes were allowed to use common areas, training, gymnasium and dining halls after clearing their COVID tests at the airport and receiving their PVC cards.

The Tokyo Olympics that were due last year but had to undergo a delay due to the pandemic will finally begin albeit under emergency conditions and with no spectators.

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