The Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) on Tuesday determined to exempt all six Olympic quota winners from choice trials however their kind and health might be assessed on the upcoming Rating Sequence occasion and the following coaching camp in Hungary. The WFI mentioned the choice to not maintain trials has been taken beneath peculiar circumstances and shouldn’t be used as a precedent in future. The WFI additionally made it clear that if any wrestler is discovered to be missing in health, the federation would take into account a substitute via trials earlier than July 8, the deadline for sending entries.
India have gotten six quotas for the Paris Video games the place Aman Sehrawat (57kg) would be the lone male wrestler in fray from the nation.
Vinesh Phogat (50kg), Antim Panghal (53kg), Anshu Malik (57kg), Nisha Dahiya (68kg) and Reetika Hooda (76kg) are the ladies wrestlers who’ve certified.
The wrestlers had requested the WFI to not maintain trials, arguing that it may result in accidents and the choice committee, led by President Sanjay Singh, accepted the plea.
“We mentioned the difficulty and each chief coaches had been additionally of the view that trials may result in accidents and influence India’s medal probabilities. So we’ve determined to not maintain trials,” Sanjay Sngh advised PTI after the assembly.
The quota winners will compete in a UWW Rating Sequence in Budapest from June 6-9 and also will take part in a coaching camp after the conclusion of the match from June 10-21.
“We’ve got to make sure that no wrestler carries any damage into the Olympics. So, as an alternative of trials, the Indian coaches will assess the quota winners on the Rating Sequence occasion and on the following coaching camp in Budapest.
“If the coaches discover that somebody isn’t match, we could then search for a substitute in that specific class. We are going to maintain choice trial earlier than July 8 in that weight class,” the president added.
The WFI determination has shut the Paris Olympic door on Tokyo Video games silver medallist Ravi Dahiya (males’s 57kg) and World Championship bronze winner Sarita Mor in ladies’s (57kg), who had been getting ready for trials.
It additionally implies that Vinesh Phogat will now need to compete in ladies’s 50kg occasion solely. She had the prospect to compete in 53kg additionally if she defeated Antim in trials.
Ladies’s head coach Virender Dahiya and freestyle head coach Jagmander Singh additionally attended the choice committee assembly.
London Olympic bronze medallist Yogeshwar Dutt, former wrestler Geetika Jakhar, WFI vice-president and Olympian Jai Prakash, WFI treasurer Sandeep Deshwal additionally attended the assembly. Geetika attended the assembly via video name.
ONE-OFF EXEMPTION, NOT A PRECEDENT
The WFI has additionally made it clear that the exemption from trials is a one-off factor and shouldn’t be used as a precedent in future.
“It was unanimously determined by the choice committee that every one the quota incomes wrestlers have been exempted from the choice trials for 2024 Paris Olympic Video games solely as a one-time exception in present peculiar circumstances, however this determination is not going to be relevant for another future choice standards for which the WFI Laws for Collection of Wrestlers for participation within the Nationwide Teaching Camp/Worldwide Competitions needs to be adopted,” the minutes of the assembly learn.
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