Indian Shooting Contingent to Leave for Tokyo Olympics on July 16

Currently in its last leg of the long competition-cum-training tour of Croatia, the Olympic-bound Indian shooting contingent will leave Zagreb for Tokyo on July 16 and reach the Japanese capital the following day.

In Tokyo, the shooters and their support staff are likely to be in quarantine for three to four days as they are entering Japan from a country where the COVID-19 situation is under control.

The Games are scheduled to be held in the Japanese capital from July 23 to August 8.

Since they are not in India (where the the number COVID cases was high when the shooters left for Croatia in May), they will not be required to do a long quarantine, which is mandatory for those travelling directly from India, a National Rifle Association of India (NRAI) source told PTI.