The athletics competitors of the fourth Khelo India College Video games begins in Guwahati on Sunday, however many Nationwide varsities champions have determined to present the Video games a miss.
Madras College’s quartermiler S.Okay. Kaven, dash hurdler R. Manav and 400m hurdler Ashwin Krishna — all gold medallists ultimately month’s Nationwide inter-university championships in Chennai — won’t be in motion on the Khelo India occasion.
“The college had knowledgeable the universities (in regards to the Khelo India College Video games) however we didn’t get info from them. We don’t know whether or not their faculty refused to ship them or the athletes refused to go,” Gopalakrishnan, the supervisor of the Madras College staff, informed The Hindu on Saturday night.
Kaven had clocked a private greatest 47.09s whereas profitable the varsities Nationals 400m gold in early January.
Calicut College triple jumper V.S. Sebastian, who was adjudged as the very best athlete on the males’s varsities Nationals after producing a private greatest 16.19m, has additionally determined to skip the Khelo India Video games.
“I wish to deal with the Athletics Federation of India meets this season, beginning with the Federation Cup (in Might),” stated the 20-year-old, who’s coached by T.P. Ouseph, who had guided World Championships lengthy bounce bronze medallist Anju Bobby George earlier.
“My elder sister Meera Shibu (the triple bounce champion on the girls’s varsities Nationals in Bhubaneswar in December) has additionally determined to skip the Khelo India occasion. She has acquired an ankle ache too.
“She had received gold on the Khelo India College Video games earlier, however there’s not a lot profit in competing within the meet, you don’t get grace marks or any money awards there. She can also be specializing in AFI meets this 12 months,” stated Sebastian from his coaching base close to Irinjalakuda in Thrissur.
The highest eight finishers on the varsities Nationwide meets mechanically qualify for the Khelo India College Video games however because the AFI doesn’t recognise performances of the inter-university Nationals, the Khelo India Video games provide likelihood for athletes to impress the nationwide federation and get into nationwide camps too.
Over 400 athletes will probably be in motion within the three-day occasion.