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The Sports Ministry’s Mission Olympic Cell (MOC) has approved an hold of javelin propulsion prima Neeraj Chopra’s grooming successful South Africa till April, portion green-lighting customised planetary vulnerability and coaching for athletes successful taekwondo and karate up of this year’s Asian Games.
In its 168th gathering present connected Wednesday (February 11, 2026), the MOC besides sanctioned fiscal assistance for rising squash prima Anahat Singh’s spot and conditioning manager and overseas vulnerability camps for para-athletes Varun Bhati and Sandeep Chaudhary.
Chopra, a two-time Olympic medal winner, began his pre-season grooming successful his preferred South African basal of Potchefstroom successful January and the ministry had initially fixed the go-ahead for a 32-day camp.
He volition present beryllium grooming successful Pretoria earlier starting his competitory play with the Doha Diamond League successful May.
Overall, proposals to the tune of ₹1.70 crore from assorted athletes were approved successful Wednesday’s (February 11, 2026) meeting.
Major enactment for combat sports by Target Asian Games Group
Keeping successful caput the Asian Games successful Aichi-Nagoya, Japan, the Target Asian Games Group (TAGG) has approved enactment for Asian Championship bronze-winning taekwondo subordinate Rodali Barua.
Her information successful 5 planetary competitions — Bulgaria Open, Slovenia Open, Dutch Open, Oceania Championships — has been approved by the MOC. All these are G2 level competitions, offering 20 ranking points to winners, important for Olympic qualification.
She volition vie successful the 4th Mount Everest International Open Taekwondo Championship successful Nepal this year.
TAGG has approved ₹21.20 Lakh for her information successful these scheduled events implicit the months of February and March.
Another taekwondo athlete, Rupa Bayor, has besides been sanctioned enactment nether the TAGG Scheme for a Physiotherapy, and Strength and Conditioning (SC) Programme for a play of 9 months until September.
She is presently ranked 6th successful the satellite and tops the Asian standings.
In Karate, Bhuvneshwari Jadhav’s information successful 3 planetary competitions on with a structured grooming programme was granted by MOC.
The competitions are scheduled to beryllium held successful Rome (March 11-16), China (April 8-13), and Spain (April 22-27).
She volition besides enactment successful a grooming programme nether overseas manager Sulaymon Sharifovich, scheduled to beryllium held successful Tashkent successful March.
“The full fiscal assistance enactment guardant is ₹20.12 Lakh, which besides includes enactment for her manager Keerthan Kondru, and a Sparring Partner,” the MOC stated.
Financial Assistance for different Karate athlete, Alisha and her coach, Vikas, has besides been sanctioned nether TAGG for 2 competitions.
The full monetary enactment for the 2 Karate players is ₹5.94 Lakh.
Both Bhuvneshwari and Alisha had won bronze medals astatine the 2025 Asian Championship held successful Uzbekistan.
