Asian Games: Blow to Indian chess, Anand opts out
Friday, October 29, 2010, 10:40 [IST]
New Delhi, Oct 29: In a huge setback to India’s prospects at the upcoming Asian Games, World champion Viswanathan Anand has cited prior commitments and decided to give the multi-discipline event a miss.
While Anand’s potential to grab a medal stands unquestioned, Humpy had returned from 2006 Asian Games in Doha with two gold medals.
With these two players opting out the AICF has no option but to field the same team that represented the country in the recent Olympiad.
The Indian team is as follows:
Men: K Sasikiran, P Hari Krishna, Surya Shekhar Ganguly, GN Gopal and B Adhiban
Women: D Harika, Tania Sachdev, Eesha Karavade, S Meenakshi and Nisha Mohota.
Coaches: Lev Psakhis and Oleg Romanishin
Manager: Bharat Singh Chauhan
India is expecting to win at least three medals at Guangzhou in the team events for men and women apart from the two individual rapid events.
Source: http://news.oneindia.in
Anand should represent India more.
Whys should they have to play mediocre competition like Asian games?? What does he have to prove against competition like the mediocre wangs from china??
Forget about Anand in ‘ASIAN’ Games
Why Adhiban??? Why not Sandeepan Chanda and Parimarjen Negi who are far better players. We have seen Adhiban’s losses prevented India getting a top ten finish at Chess Olympiad. AICF magic!! Ha Ha Ha
AICF should show more respect to International players’ schedules, and show some professional approach. Could they not contact the ace players earlier? And in case of Humpy, who received 2 gold medals in last Asian games, the treatment in really shoddy. Humpy now claims that she did not opt out, she is left out! This is because she could not accommodate to attend a training camp!