NEW DELHI: The Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) on Saturday granted IOA a one-week extension to put up names of collaborating wrestlers for the Hangzhou Asian Video games.
The IOA had sought pace until August 5 however the OCA has poised the closing date until July 22 to ship the entries to the Asian Video games organisers.
The Asian Video games start from September 23.
The only-week extension used to be granted by means of the OCA underneath “exceptional circumstances” later the Indian Olympic Affiliation (IOA) lead brass together with President PT Usha, Senior Vice President Ajay Patel and Joint Secretary Kalyan Chaubey attended the Common Meeting of the OCA in Bangkok.
“The IOA officials tried their best but the OCA gave a week’s extension and that too they (OCA) said was being granted under exceptional circumstances. So, this is the final and we have to send names of our wrestlers by July 22,” a supply related to IOA ad-hoc committee informed PTI.
Usha had written to the OCA on Thursday to increase the closing date in order that it would lend the six protesting wrestlers, together with Vinesh Phogat, Bajrang Punia and Sakshi Malik, plenty pace to arrange for the Asian Video games and International Championship trails.
Sooner than, Usha’s unutilized request, the IOA had requested OCA to permit it to book trials by means of August 10.
(With inputs from PTI)
The IOA had sought pace until August 5 however the OCA has poised the closing date until July 22 to ship the entries to the Asian Video games organisers.
The Asian Video games start from September 23.
The only-week extension used to be granted by means of the OCA underneath “exceptional circumstances” later the Indian Olympic Affiliation (IOA) lead brass together with President PT Usha, Senior Vice President Ajay Patel and Joint Secretary Kalyan Chaubey attended the Common Meeting of the OCA in Bangkok.
“The IOA officials tried their best but the OCA gave a week’s extension and that too they (OCA) said was being granted under exceptional circumstances. So, this is the final and we have to send names of our wrestlers by July 22,” a supply related to IOA ad-hoc committee informed PTI.
Usha had written to the OCA on Thursday to increase the closing date in order that it would lend the six protesting wrestlers, together with Vinesh Phogat, Bajrang Punia and Sakshi Malik, plenty pace to arrange for the Asian Video games and International Championship trails.
Sooner than, Usha’s unutilized request, the IOA had requested OCA to permit it to book trials by means of August 10.
(With inputs from PTI)
