New Delhi, Jul 10 (PTI) Barely 10 days left for the extended deadline to expire for picking the Indian wrestling team, the IOA ad-hoc panel has yet again failed to set a date for the Asian Games trials, leaving the wrestling fraternity perplexed and confounded.

While the OCA has set July 15 as deadline for all nations to send athletes’ entries by names for the Games, the continental body had extended the deadline to send details of the Indian wrestling squad till July 22 under “exceptional circumstances.” However, despite getting an additional one week, the ad-hoc panel could not decide on a date for trials after a marathon meeting on Monday. Instead, it decided that IOA should approach the OCA again for further extension.

“We have requested IOA president (PT Usha) to use her office to urge the OCA to extend the date beyond July 22,” Ashok Garg one of the ad-hoc committee members told

Source: PTI News