Indian archers to overlook Swiss World Cup

India’s Olympic-bound archers won’t get to compete within the Stage 2 World Cup in Lausanne as their short-term visa utility has been rejected by the Switzerland Embassy.
India has been battling a second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic that has pressured many nations to ban travellers from India.
The Indian archers will now instantly compete within the Stage 3 World Cup in Paris which would be the final Olympic qualification occasion for the Indian girls’s recurve crew. The seven-day competitors will start on June 23.
“Swiss Embassy did not allow any short term Visa and we had little time for the Stage 2 World Cup (May 17-23). Our focus is solely on the Paris World Cup now,” Archery Association of secretary common Pramod Chandurkar instructed PTI.
India thus far have males’s crew and ladies’s particular person berths for Tokyo. The nationwide federation can also looking for a rest within the 10-day quarantine rule for its archer once they attain Paris.
“We are mulling to write to the French federation to allow the archers to travel at least for practice during the 10-day quarantine,” he mentioned.
Chandurkar additional mentioned that the federation would additionally ship the compound crew to Paris. The crew had missed out on World Cup Stage 1 following their head coach’s “false positive report”.
“Compound archers are short on tournament exposure for a long time so we want to have a full strength participation in World Cup Stage 3,” Chandurkar added.
In the absence of the compound crew, the recurve archers got here up with their finest ever present in a World Cup, profitable three gold medals and one bronze in Guatemala City final month.