As per guidelines, athletes from the Indian contingent who are reaching from countries other than India don't have to quartine for three days.
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Mary Kom and Pooja Rani have started preparing for the Tokyo Olympics. India at Tokyo Olympics is preparing with the whole contingent after reaching the Japanese capital. More than half of the Indian contingent has reached Tokyo, and shooters have also started training. As per guidelines, athletes from the Indian contingent who are reaching from countries other than India don’t have to quartine for three days. The rest of the contingent flying from India will have to quarantine for three days.
Boxing Federation of India (BFI) shared photos of the boxers training and it captioned the post as: “Training in Tokyo. Here are some glimpses as our Baazigars sweat it out at Olympic village ahead of the @Tokyo2020.” Equestrian Fouaad Mirza has also started his training ahead of the Games, beginning July 23 in Tokyo.
Earlier, shuttlers PV Sindhu and Sai Praneeth hit the court and trained alongside coach Park Tae Sang. Paddlers Sharath Kamal and Sathiyan Gnanasekaran also started their training.
Indian archers Atanu Das, Tarundeep Rai, Praveen Jadhav, and Deepika Kumari also started their training on Monday. The Indian contingent that departed for Tokyo from New Delhi on July 17, safely reached Japan and checked into the Olympics Games Village.
All 88 athletes underwent Covid-19 testing at the airport and tested negative for COVID-19. Their PVC cards were also validated at the airport. A total of 119 athletes across 18 sports disciplines from India will be heading to Tokyo. This is the biggest-ever contingent India is sending to any Olympics. The 69 cumulative events across the 18 sport disciplines that India will participate in are also the highest ever for the country.
Tokyo Olympics will run from July 23-August 8. The mega event was slated to be held last year, but it had to be postponed due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
