Most of the Indian athletics team headed for Paris 2024, which includes world and Olympic champion Neeraj Chopra, will complete their last training camp in three European nations: Turkey, Poland, and Switzerland, in preparation for the Summer Olympics. Four days before the track and field championships get underway on August 1, all thirty of the Indian athletes who were chosen for Paris 2024 are expected to get together in Paris on July 28. Neeraj Chopra will be stationed in the Gloria Sports Arena in Antalya, Turkey, prior to Paris 2024. For the main event, the Indian javelin throw ace has been practicing in Finland and Germany. After winning gold at the Paavo Nurmi Games in Finland last month, 26-year-old Chopra announced that she would not be participating in any more meets until the Olympics.
The Paris 2024-bound men’s and women’s 4x400m relay teams, javelin thrower Annu Rani and shot put athletes Tajinderpal Singh Toor and Abha Khatua will also fly out to Poland on Thursday.
Steeplechasers Avinash Sable and Parul Chaudhary will train in St. Moritz, Switzerland, and join the other athletes in Poland on July 24 before departing for Paris.
Meanwhile, race walkers Akshdeep Singh, Paramjeet Singh Bisht, Vikash Singh and Suraj Panwar will be training at the Sports Authority of India (SAI) centre in Bengaluru before boarding the flight to Paris. Triple jumper Abdulla Aboobacker and middle-distance runner Ankita Dhyani will also train at SAI, Bengaluru.
