Indian wrestling wrestlers had limited time to train for the trials due to the commotion behind the scenes, which negatively affected their readiness for the big events.
Olympic bronze medallist Aman Sehrawat had to endure a trial by fire at home before he could climb the podium in Paris.
The then-rookie made his debut at the Asian Games selection trials on July 22 of last year. Aman had just four days to be ready, much as every other wrestler who competed there; the trials were formally announced on July 18.
A month later, the adolescent faced yet another challenge: the World Championships. He was only given eleven days’ notice this time. Similar to the first trial, he won the 57 kg class, which is one of the most competitive in India.
After two consecutive home tournaments, Aman arrived in Belgrade for the World Championships twenty days later, tired. In 2 minutes and 45 seconds, he was steamrolled in the round of 16.
Aman was not the only wrestler to face the difficulties of competing three times in around fifty days, undergoing three weight reductions, and navigating the peaking cycle three times.
Repeatedly lowering the weight has an impact on your body since it prevents you from maintaining or building strength. As a result, it impacts performance,” Aman’s coach, Lalit Kumar, explains. We are granted a 2 kilogramme exemption for the testing. He may therefore participate domestically against 59 kg. However, he still needed to lose roughly two to three pounds every time, and four to five pounds for the championship.
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As a result of the chaos that has engulfed Indian wrestling for the past two years, the nation’s athletes—both Olympians and rookies, juniors and seniors—have had to cope with a level of uncertainty never seen before, which has resulted in a mishandling of Olympic proportions.
A researcher has now examined the magnitude of the influence it has had on the wrestlers. Confusion and turmoil dominated selection in the run-up to the Paris Olympics, according to the researcher, who asked to remain anonymous and focused mostly on the conduct of the selection trials for important regional and international events in 2023 and 2024.
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According to the study, the Wrestling wrestlers had limited time to train for the trials, which negatively affected their readiness for the major events. They may have been at risk for health problems as a result of cutting weight repeatedly in a short amount of time and even expecting to peak more than once within that time.
Sample this:
On July 22 and 23, the selection trial for the Asian Games in Hangzhou took place. On July 18, it received an official directive.
The tryouts took place on August 25 and 26 in order to choose the team for the 2023 World Championships. Just eleven days prior, on August 14, wrestlers were made aware of it.
On March 10 and 11, 2024, the Asian Olympic Qualifiers trials took place. Two days prior, on March 8, the notification was sent.
In addition to numerous logistical, psychological, and physical difficulties, the athletes had to lose weight twice in a short period of time because the selection trials and the competition were separated by an average of two to three weeks.
Trials were held, at least in the aforementioned situations, which were overseen by the Wrestling Federation of India and an ad hoc committee appointed by the Indian Olympic Association.
Former World Championship silver medallist Deepak Punia and under-20 and under-23 world medallist Sujeet Kalkal set up a base camp in Dagestan, Russia, to prepare for the final Olympic qualifier earlier this year. Out of the blue, the Sanjay Singh-led WFI said there was a possibility of holding a selection trial to pick the team for the event, forcing Punia to take the first flight back home. Upon landing in New Delhi, the wrestlers were told there would be no trials. Eventually, neither made the cut for Paris 2024.
Increasing uncertainty
The opaque ways to pick India’s teams for international wrestling competitions have been the case for as long as one can remember, even leading to repeated court cases.
But in the last two years, the uncertainty has only increased. Since January 2023, when India’s top wrestlers began their protest against former WFI president Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, there has been a constant tussle to assume control of the sport’s administration.
Sujeet’s father and coach, Dayanand Kalkal, states: “If we look at established wrestling nations like the USA or Japan, the wrestlers there know at the beginning of the year when the trials will take place.” The wrestlers gain insight, improve their preparation, and experience less stress overall.
Indeed, at the beginning of the year, wrestlers in nations like the USA and Japan, who placed first and third in the wrestling medal count at Paris 2024, are told of the yearly calendar, which includes the dates of the selection trials. The Olympic trials took place in April in categories where quotas were previously reserved, allowing the competitors travelling to Paris almost three months to rest and be ready.
Due to a lack of clarity, the wrestlers in India had to beg the WFI to forego holding another selection trial until weeks before the opening ceremony. Eventually, the WFI granted their request.
However, because selection trials were held so abruptly during the Paris Olympics cycle, some wrestlers were forced to enter competitions too soon due to injuries, which made their recovery more difficult.
“There was so much confusion over the dates of the trials that we couldn’t properly plan Anshu’s rehab,” explains Dharamveer Malik, the father of former Asian champion and World Championship silver medallist Anshu, of the Asian Games trials last year. For such a significant event, we were only given four days to be ready for the trials when the dates were ultimately published.
Due to his knee ailment, Anshu was unable to prepare for the trials and lost in the first round. Ravi Dahiya, the silver medallist from the Tokyo Olympics, had to enter the tournament quickly after suffering from an injury for a long time.
During the last Olympic cycle, Anshu and Ravi were two of the six top wrestlers who spent as much time in rehabilitation as they did on the mat, if not more, as Ravi did.
Anshu suffered from neck and knee ailments on a regular basis. Between April 2023 and March 2024, Sonam Malik, another teenage wrestler, reported six injuries. Antim Panghal, a medallist at the World Championship, injured her thumb four months after injuring her neck in June 2023. Aman sustained a hamstring injury in April, and Ravi underwent two knee surgeries.
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Vinesh Phogat, Bajrang Punia, Deepak Punia, and Reetika Hooda, the Under-23 world champion, all sustained injuries at various times during the previous two years.
Dayanand, whose ward Sujeet just returned from a training trip to Japan, adds, “The last two years haven’t been ideal.” “In order to avoid compromising the preparation for the upcoming tournaments, we hope that things will settle down in the upcoming weeks.”
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