Sports Ministry Approves Foreign Training Camps For Neeraj Chopra, Three Other Athletes

New Delhi: The sports activities ministry has authorised Olympic gold medallist Neeraj Chopra’s proposal to coach at Loughborough College within the UK.

Star javelin thrower Neeraj, together with coach Klaus Bartonietz and physiotherapist Ishaan Marwaha, could be coaching at Loughborough for 63 days and are set to depart for the UK later this week.

Apart from Neeraj, the federal government’s Mission Olympic Cell (MOC), in its 86th assembly Friday, additionally cleared the proposals for shuttler Kidambi Srikanth, wrestler Deepak Punia, and javelin thrower and Commonwealth Video games medallist Annu Rani.

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The approximate price for the coaching of all of the above-mentioned athletes could be round Rs 94 lakh which might be cleared below the sports activities ministry’s Nationwide Sports activities Improvement Fund (NSDF).

Srikanth, alongside together with his coach and physiotherapist will probably be coaching at Prisma Sports activities Membership in Jakarta for 29 days. Punia will probably be together with his physiotherapist in Michigan for 34 days, whereas Annu Rani will probably be coaching along with her physiotherapist at Leichtathletik-Gemeinschaft (LG) Offenburg, Germany below coach Werner Daniels who had earlier additionally educated Neeraj.

Funding for these could be supplied below the Sports activities Authority of India’s (SAI) Goal Olympic Podium Scheme (TOPS) and would cowl the participant and their help workers’s flight, lodging, native journey, and meals prices amongst different expenditures.

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TOPS may also present every athlete an out-of-pocket allowance of USD 50 per day for another expense they could incur throughout their keep. 

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