Last Updated: April 28, 2021, 14:57 IST
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India have been knocked out on the quarterfinal stage of the Asian Olympic qualifier event.
National fencing squad’s hopes of incomes an Olympic Games quota place ended on the quarterfinal stage of the Asian Olympic qualifier event held in Tashkent.
“Since it was one final probability to make the minimize for the Olympics, the gamers wilted underneath stress. Instead of staying calm and taking part in their pure recreation the fencers grew to become a bit error inclined that spoiled their possibilities,” a nationwide stage coach advised IANS.
The two-day event, held final weekend, supplied six quota locations, together with three within the ladies’s class for the Tokyo Olympics.
According to the coach, two fencers — Sunil Kumar and Radhia Avati — entered the quarterfinals of their respective occasions whereas different three bowed out within the first spherical.
“Sunil gave a superb account of himself within the epee occasion. He was main in his quarterfinal match, however misplaced three very important factors within the closing levels of the event to bow out,” he mentioned.
Radhia too reached the quarterfinal stage within the ladies’s foil occasion. “We have been anticipating Karan Singh to attain the semis of males’s sabre occasion. But he too went out early within the Asian event,” mentioned the nationwide staff coach.
The Asian Olympic qualifiers was the final probability for Indians to make the minimize for the Olympics scheduled to begin on July 23.
Last month, India’s Bhavani Devi had gained the Olympics quota place within the sabre occasion in Italy. She is the one Indian fencer to have gained a ticket for the Olympics.
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