Trying ahead to the Los Angeles Olympics, the Athletics Federation of India (AFI) is all set to offer promising athletes an opportunity with an goal to boost the efficiency of the boys’s 4x400m relay group.
The relay group, which reached the 2023 World championships by setting an Asian document of two:59.05, dissatisfied on the Paris Olympics because it crashed out within the heats with a below-par time of three:00.26.
The AFI, which backed the relay group properly with the help from the Authorities, is just not shy of taking onerous selections. “They did properly on the World championships, breaking the Asian document. I believe it went to their head…You’re going to see new faces and new coaches,” AFI president Adille Sumariwalla informed The Hindu through the Nationwide junior athletics championships on the Kalinga Stadium right here.
Sumariwalla was additionally dissatisfied with steeplechaser Avinash Sable’s efficiency within the Olympics. Sable, who achieved his private better of 8:09.91 in July, clocked 8:14.18 within the Olympics ultimate to complete eleventh.
The AFI is taking a number of measures to carry Indian athletes’ efficiency in larger meets, such because the 2027 World championships and 2028 Olympics.
“We’re getting a brand new javelin coach aside from Neeraj’s coach (Jan Zelezny) to India. We’re getting yet another overseas coach within the 400m. We’re planning to ship our walkers overseas for coaching. We’re not going to have camps. We’re serving to all of the establishments to create their very own champions, aside from the relays.”
Sumariwalla stated India is bidding to host worldwide occasions, together with a javelin competitors, a continental tour occasion, World Relays, World junior championships and the 2029 World championships.
Being attentive to a number of distinctive performances within the Nationwide junior meet right here, Sumariwalla agreed that a few of these might be a trigger for concern. “If they’re under-14 or under-16, positively it’s a trigger for concern. It’s one thing which we’ve got been preventing for a very long time — overtraining and early specialisation. That’s the reason we’re producing increasingly new coaches”
The AFI is planning so as to add 10 extra occasions, together with some regional competitions, to the 2025 calendar.
Printed – December 11, 2024 08:47 pm IST
