Tokyo: In a bid to overcome the Olympic Video games being organised within the midst of the pandemic, the Indian contingent started its preparations on Monday. The primary batch of Indian gamers reached the sports village on Sunday morning after finishing the COVID-19 formalities.
Archers Deepika Kumari and Atanu Das, desk tennis gamers G Sathiyan and Achanta Sharath Kamal, badminton gamers PV Sindhu and B Sai Praneeth, and India’s lone gymnast Pranati Nayak began training on Monday.
Archery duo Atanu and Deepika practiced on the Yumenoshima Park within the morning whereas Sathiyan and Sharath Kamal additionally began their preparations to create historical past by successful Olympic medals. Gymnast Pranati additionally began training this morning underneath the supervision of coach Laxman Manohar Sharma.
Badminton gamers Sindhu and Praneeth practiced underneath the identical coach, Park Tae Sung, whereas the doubles pair of Chirag Shetty and Satwiksairaj Rankireddy reached the court docket with their coach, Mathias Bo. The gamers of the crusing workforce, together with V Saravanan, started their preparations on Sunday itself. Aside from Saravanan (males’s laser class), Netra Kumanan, KC Ganapathy and Varun Thakkar all reached right here final week. They’ll signify the nation within the crusing occasion on the Tokyo Olympics.
Rovers Arjun Lal Jat and Arvind Singh, who arrived in Tokyo on Saturday, additionally took half of their first follow session on the Sea Forest Waterway on Sunday underneath the supervision of chief nationwide coach Ismail Baig. Each of them will compete within the males’s light-weight double sculls.
India’s 15-member taking pictures workforce additionally went to a taking pictures vary on Monday. In line with the rules set by the organising committee earlier, gamers going from India have been to stay on a compulsory three-day quarantine, however later it was eliminated, which introduced an enormous reduction to the gamers.