United World Wrestling (UWW), the world governing physique for the game, on Friday, made it clear that it could obtain entries solely from its affiliated nationwide physique, the Wrestling Federation of India (WFI), for the upcoming Asian championships and Asian Olympic Games qualifier in Bishkek.
After the Delhi High Court – performing on a plea by some outstanding wrestlers together with Bajrang Punia, Vinesh Phogat and Sakshi Malik – on Thursday dominated that the Indian Olympic Association (IOA) appointed ad-hoc committee would conduct choice trials for the mentioned occasions, UWW got here out in help of the WFI.
When the WFI was suspended by the UWW, the ad-hoc committee had mounted the trials on March 10 and 11 in Sonepat and Patiala. After WFI’s suspension was lifted on February 13, the nationwide physique introduced the identical dates for trials in Delhi.
In its letter, UWW president Nenda Lalovic mentioned, “It is the responsibility of the national federations regularly affiliated to UWW to select and announce their teams for the Continental Championships, the World Championships, the Olympic Games Qualifying Tournaments as well as the Ranking Series and other International tournaments on the official calendar.
“This is in line with the principles enshrined in our rules and regulations and no other entity may take this role on your behalf,” mentioned the letter.
