: Athletes need to get back quickly: Abhinav Bindra says next Olympic cycle will be ‘tricky’ #IndiaNEWS India’s first individual Olympic gold medallist Abhinav Bindra on Thursday said the road

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Athletes need to get back quickly: Abhinav Bindra says next Olympic cycle will be ‘tricky’ #IndiaNEWS
India’s first individual Olympic gold medallist Abhinav Bindra on Thursday said the road to the 2024 Paris Games will be difficult and “tricky� given the shorter three-year cycle.Bindra also lauded India’s performance at the recently-concluded Tokyo Olympics.“It was a historic performance with the best-ever seven medals. There were moments of great triumph and heartbreaks, but that is what sport is all about. We have a good momentum now going forward,� Bindra said.He added, “I see the next Olympics cycle will be tricky, primarily because of the shorter cycle. Normally athletes get a year post Olympics that allows them to rest and recover, but this time around they need to get back pretty quickly.�He was speaking at a webinar organised by ELMS Sports Foundation.Earlier, the Tokyo Games were postponed due to the Covid-19 pandemic by a year and the next Olympics cycle was reduced to three years, from the usual four, going into the 2024 Paris Games.The athletes will now be left with a challenge of having less qualification events and quotas.In Tokyo, javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra ended India’s campaign on a high by winning gold. It was the country’s seventh medal at the Games, with weightlifter Mirabai Chanu and wrestler Ravi Kumar Dahiya claiming silver, and badminton player...Read more

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