NEW DELHI: The Tokyo fencing master CA Bhavani Devi won’t be looking for much motivation when she competes in her first Olympic Games. His mother would accompany him as a “team manager”. Table tennis player Maneka Batra is also instructed by his “personal trainer” during training sessions and competition games in Tokyo.
The Indian Olympic Association (IOA) has named Bhavani’s mother, CA Sundharaman Ramani, to the fencing team of four, while Manika’s coaching partner Sanmay Paranjape from Pune has been added to the list of officials traveling to Tokyo as the person of the star. Trainer. In the six-man TT squad, which also includes the men’s singles G Sathiyan and Achanta Sharath Kamal (also with Manika in mixed doubles), this privilege is only granted to Manika. In March 2019, Maneka named Paranjabi as his “Practicing Partner”.
Ramani and Paranjape are counted as “additional officers,” meaning they travel to Tokyo “at no state expense”, but their expenses are covered by the IOA. You will spend the night in a hotel outside the athletes’ village. It is known from sources that the office owner of the Indian Table Tennis Association (TTFI) asked the IOA to clarify the nature of Paranjape’s work as a class “P” trainer.
Ramani is certified as a P-TAP (Personal Training Assistant Program) which allows him to visit Bhavani in the training / exercise halls and competition venues to watch his games from the stands. His accreditation does not allow him to officially reside in the village or to visit the athletes’ dining rooms. It is known that Bhavani asked IOA to add his mother’s name to the list of units. Bhavani trainer Nicola Zanotti and sports psychologist Angelo Carnimola will travel in their official roles.
During the Olympic Games in London, the mother of tennis star Sania Mirza, Nassima, traveled with a group of five as a team manager. After badminton player Saina Nehwal threatened to withdraw from the event at the 2018 CWG Gold Coast after she refused to allow her father Harvir Singh to stay in the village, the IOA drafted a “parentless” policy for the 2018 Asian Games in Jakarta . For the Tokyo Olympics, however, the IOA seems to have pushed politics into the background.
PV Sindhu – the country’s greatest wish for a medal in the Olympics – came true after Korean trainer Park Tae-sang and physical therapist Evangeline Badam were officially appointed to the unit. Sai Praneeth’s demoted B-trainer, Agus Dwi Santoso from Indonesia, took over P-TAP as an add-on because Praneeth was not accessible in the village. Santoso will only visit his stand during training sessions and will coach him from the stands during tournament games. A week ago, national coach Paulila Gopichand decided to withdraw from the badminton squad to make way for Santoso. Gopichand would not have known that Santoso would be accepted into the unity in this way.
In tennis, the married couple Sania and Ankita Raina become daughters without the services of a coach. Zishan Ali’s name was missing from the list. Likewise, the names of the foreign air pistol instructor Pavel Smirnov and the weapons instructor Jaspal Rana were not mentioned in the shootings. Smirnov’s name is known to have been omitted to accommodate trainers Ronak Pandit (trainer Manu Bhakkar) and Samrish Young. The National Rifle Association of India (NRAI) submitted the names of seven coaches, and according to the IOA, all of them have been accommodated. Most recently, Rana had never trained a gunner in the direction of Tokyo and had not traveled to Zagreb, Croatia for an 80-day Olympic exhibition trip.
As reported by TOI, MC Mary Kom’s personal boxing coach Chut Lal Yadav was added to the list, but coach Amit Panghal Anil Dankar was not. However, Bangal-based physicist Rohit Kashyap made it onto the list. To accommodate Chhote Lal, the physicist Ayush Khande, whose name was first registered in an official capacity, was appointed as an additional officer.
In wrestling, the four foreign personal trainers of the three Phogat wrestlers in the group are named. These include Chaco Bentenides, Trainer Bajrang Bunya, Akos Waller (Finish Phogat), Kemal Malikov (Ravi Dahiya) and Murat Jedarov (Depak Bunya). In recent changes to the Wrestling Administrators Unit, physical therapist Brajesh Kumar was added to the list as an additional administrator. The loophole came after learning that Waller had obtained a Hungarian visa to travel to Tokyo and would be coming to the Japanese capital during the Finch Games before returning to Budapest after the Olympics.
In athletics, the foreign coach Uwe Hohn is on the list despite his rebellion against the Indian Athletics Federation (AFI) and the Indian Sports Authority (SAI), although Shivpal Yadav and Annu, who wanted to go to Tokyo, Rani. have stopped from training. under Germany. The biggest surprise, however, was the omission of high-speed trainer Gurmit Singh, who trained Sandeep Bunya and Priyanka Goswami, to go to Tokyo for the 20km run. On Sunday, Bonya tweeted from her official Twitter account, thanking the US space agency for adding Gourmet’s name to the official list. But that didn’t happen in the end.