Bhubaneswar, Jun 15 (PTI) Winner of five successive gold from 2002 to 2018 in women’s 4x400m relay, India is struggling to string together a six-member team for the upcoming Asian Games, and chief coach Radhakrishnan Nair attributed it to the lack of back-up from junior athletes.

The reason for the lack of back-up is “burnout” due to “overtraining at young age”.

Nair said India will struggle to win a gold medal in the Hangzhou Asian Games (September 23 to October 8) as some of the promising quarter-milers faded out after doing extremely well at the junior level.

“We are not getting the back-up from junior to senior. The best (among juniors) are burnt out. At a young age, they are overtrained very badly,” Nair told

Source: PTI News