Indian athletes start training ahead of Tokyo Olympics
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Indian athletes hit the ground running as they started their pre-Olympic training a day after landing in Tokyo, hoping to live up to massive expectations in the pandemic-hit Games. The first batch of Indian athletes arrived on Sunday morning and checked in to the Games village after fulfilling the Covid-19 related protocol requirements. The likes of archers DeepikaKumari and Atanu Das, table tennis players G Sathiyan and A Sharath Kamal, ace shuttlers PV Sindhu and B SaiPraneeth and lone Indian gymnast in fray, Pranati Nayak, started their training on Monday.
While archery couple Atanu and Deepika started sharpening their skills at the Yumenoshima Park this morning, paddlers Sathiyan and Sharath Kamal too began their preparations in search of an elusive Olympic medal in the sport. Gymnasts Pranati Nayak also started her training this morning under the supervision of coach Laxman Manohar Sharma. While shuttler Sindhu and Praneeth trained with singles coach Park Tae Sang, the men's doubles pair of Chirag Shetty and Satwiksairaj Ranki reddy hit the courts along with their coach Mathias Boe. The sailors, including V Sarvanan, the first to reach Tokyo, had already started their training on Sunday. Besides Saravanan (men's laser class), Nethra Kumanan, KC Ganapathy, and Varun Thakker, all of whom reached here last week, will be representing the country in the sailing event at the Tokyo Games.
