Olympic preparations: Narang, Sushil meet parliamentary standing committee

Olympic medallists Gagan Narang and Sushil Kumar on Wednesday met the parliamentary standing committee shaped to observe and help in Indian athletes’ preparations for subsequent 12 months’s Tokyo Games and past. The parliamentary standing committee for the Ministry of Human Resource Development (HRD), headed by Rajya Sabha MP Vinay Sahasrabuddhe, is monitoring the medal preparedness of athletes heading to the Tokyo Olympics subsequent summer season.

“We have shared our views, from the athlete’s perspective, on what needs to be done to ensure our preparations are great heading into the Tokyo Olympics,” Narang, who received a bronze medal on the 2012 London Games, informed PTI.

“We expressed our views on 2021 and beyond and generally about Indian sports. Both Sushil and I have represented India in multiple Olympics and shared the cumulative experience of having played in seven-eight Games,” the rifle shooter added.

Narang posed for {a photograph} with the two-time Olympic medallist wrestler Sushil after their interplay with members of the involved division at Parliament House Annexe within the nationwide capital. The committee had earlier referred to as for a presentation by National Sports Federation (NSF) of 5 disciplines which are touted to offer the Indian group medals within the Olympics.

India is prone to subject a powerful contingent on the Games, which was pushed again by a 12 months to 2021 because of the COVID-19 pandemic. In the final version in 2016, India managed to win solely two medals — silver for PV Sindhu in badminton and bronze for Sakshi Malik in wrestling.

International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach has inspired athletes for subsequent 12 months’s Games to get vaccinated.

“This will be no requirement,” Bach stated after touring the Olympic village by the Tokyo Bay.

“But we will encourage athletes when it is possible to have a vaccination because it is better for their health. It is also the demonstration of solidarity with their fellow athletes and the Japanese people.”