Indian wrestlers Deepak Punia and Sujeet Kalkal are stuck at the Dubai airport amid the ongoing flood scenario in UAE and are in a race against time to make it to the Asian Wrestling qualifiers in Bishkek.
The unparalleled scenario has set the duo and their odds of generating it on time for the weigh-in at the tournament into jeopardy.
As per the hottest submit of Sporting activities Authority of India, the wrestlers will be accommodated on the late-evening flight to Bishkek. Having said that, the problem would not appear simple at all as the wrestlers are just several hours away from weigh-in.
“Equally wrestlers are training at the airport at the moment as they you should not have any solution. All the inns in Dubai are full and they are trapped there for hrs,” a mentor who did not desire to be named to The Bridge.
When requested about the implications of this delay, the mentor discussed, “They had been supposed to slash down their pounds nowadays just before the event but now they are sleeping on the ground in the terminal and training there. We will not know how their human body is at the moment.”
Both equally Deepak and Sujeet are accompanied by their Russian coach Kamal Malikov and physio Shubham Gupta.
Whilst other Indian wrestlers remaining right from Delhi for Bishkek, the duo had been schooling in Makachkala and took a flight to Bishkek by means of Dubai.
Following taking the late-night flight, the wrestlers will achieve Bishkek at 6 am as per neighborhood time and the weigh-in for the tournament starts off at 8 am local time.
The circumstance got worsened at Dubai Airport has been seriously disrupted thanks to the heavy rains, which have battered the Emirates. In accordance to the UAE authorities, the country received its greatest rainfall in 75 yrs as up to 259.5 mm of rain fell on Tuesday.