Indian freestyle wrestlers were denied permission to board a Bulgaria-certain flight on Wednesday.
India’s freestyle wrestlers hoping to seal their Tokyo quota at the Planet Olympic wrestling qualifiers in Bulgaria were denied permission to board a flight out of New Delhi on Wednesday.
A 10-member staff that bundled Amit Dhankar (74kg), Satyawart Kadian (97kg), Sumit Malik (125kg), Seema Bisla (50kg), Nisha Dahiya (68kg), Pooja Sihag (76kg) and Deepanshu (Greco-Roman 97kg) have been to vacation to Sofia via Amsterdam. The qualifiers will be held from May possibly 6 to 9.
But with the Netherlands government imposing a vacation ban on India in the wake of the raging COVID-19 crisis in the place, the wrestlers had been remaining stranded at the Indira Gandhi Intercontinental Airport in Delhi.
“Finding tickets is so challenging in the existing predicament. We experienced booked tickets early this time but then past night time KLM (Dutch airline) known as us to notify us that the wrestlers won’t be allowed to vacation to Amsterdam,” a Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) official instructed WrestlingTV.
The WFI is doing the job on an option strategy to see if the grapplers can be accommodated on an Air France flight that plies on the Mumbai-Paris route on Friday.
The federation is also in continual contact with the Ministry of Exterior Affairs (MEA) and the Ministry of Civil Aviation (MCA) to discover a option.
In the meantime, a 17-member Indian contingent — created up of the Greco-Roman wrestlers — left for the World qualifiers by means of the Mumbai-Paris route on Wednesday early morning.
Also taking care of to uncover her way to Europe right before the journey ban kicked in was Vinesh Phogat, who alongside with her coach Woller Akos, are in Bulgaria for a education camp.
But Bajrang Punia’s programs for global publicity have been struck down after he was denied authorization to journey aboard in the wake of the expanding COVID-10 instances in the country.
India, so considerably, have earned 6 Olympic quotas with children Sonam Malik and Anshu Malik signing up for Bajrang Punia, Ravi Kumar Dahiya, Deepak Punia and Vinesh Phogat next their wins at the Asian Olympic wrestling qualifiers.