For someone who lost a season to a nagging elbow injury that needed surgery, Indian javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra understandably welcomed the postponement of the Tokyo Games last year.
Chopra is one of 90-odd Tokyo-bound Indian athletes who have spent much of the last 12 months agonising over the loss of precious practice time in an Olympic year. Chopra was hoping to train and compete in Turkey this month but the Athletics Federation of India suspended their camp after being told the athletes would have to complete two weeks of hard quarantine on arrival.
"You can set up the ball trajectory and frequency, you can set up the spin and speed, you can set up like one ball close to the net, and then the other one at the far end of the table.Sathiyan has since turned the roof terrace of his Chennai home into a sports hall, ordered a new table just like the ones he will play on in Tokyo, and roped in a local player to practise against."You miss that human touch. You miss those moments, like seeing openings and placing them in the right place.
"It was not a new idea for me," the sabre fencer told a virtual news conference on Wednesday, recalling the early days of her fencing career when she could not afford a proper sword and practised with bamboo sticks."It gave me the feel of fencing with an opponent," said Devi, who earlier this year became the first Indian fencer to qualify for an Olympics, booking her spot at the World Cup in Hungary.
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