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CHENNAI
The sixth limb of the Indian Athletics Series, opening astatine the Nehru Stadium present connected Sunday and portion of the 16-leg nationwide circuit moving from April to September, volition beryllium a immense preparatory workout for athletes similar prima agelong jumper Murali Sreeshankar and others.
The Athletics Federation of India has made information mandatory successful a minimum of 2 home meets to beryllium considered for the National Federation Cup successful Ranchi from May 22 to 25 (it is the last enactment trials for the Glasgow Commonwealth Games to beryllium held successful July-August). For the 27-year-old Sreeshankar the conscionable assumes value and helium is keen to execute good here.
“Heading up to Federation Cup and remainder of the season, truthful evidently the people is to beryllium successful bully signifier for the main events including the CWG and Asian Games. I americium looking guardant to a bully show here,” helium told presspersons aft his grooming league connected Saturday.
Sreeshankar, a metallic medallist successful the 2022 CWG, said the grooming stint precocious successful South Africa was rather competitory and is bound to assistance him successful aboriginal events.
“I trained for 3 weeks successful the North West Academy of Sport successful Potchefstroom, South Africa and did 8.12m successful a conscionable successful Pretoria. The acold upwind successful South Africa and Glasgow CWG volition beryllium similar, which mightiness assistance me,” helium said.
