GUWAHATI: The Indian boxers' first planned training trip to the USA has been cancelled owing to visa related complications.
Seven Indian male boxers were to travel to the USA for a 10-day training at the acclaimed
Michael Johnson Performance Centre in Texas early next month. However, the trip has been put off for now after visas did not come through in time.
"The Sports Authority of India had cleared everything but we realised that we won't get the visas in time. So the trip had to be cancelled. Tremendous disappointment but hopefully we can plan it later," India's High Performance Director
Santiago Nieva
said.
The squad picked for the trip comprised those who participated at this year's World Championships in Hamburg, Germany.
So, Hamburg bronze-medallist Gaurav Bidhuri (56kg), three-time Asian medallist
Shiva Thapa
(60kg), former CWG gold-medallist
Manoj Kumar (69kg),
Amit Panghal (49kg),
Kavinder Bisht
(52kg),
Sumit Sangwan
(91kg) and
Vikas Krishan (75kg) had been selected.
The Michael Johnson Performance center is much sought after among top athletes and specialises in performance training, physical therapy, bio-mechanical assessments and nutrition consultation.
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