New Delhi, May 05: It was the most draining tourney of their nascent boxing careers but World Youth Championships gold-medallist Vikas Krishan and silver-medallist Shiva Thapa didn’t have a doctor to take care of their niggles ahead of their summit clashes in Baku, Azerbaijan.
The volcanic ash cloud over Europe that disrupted air traffic for a week meant that the championships started a couple of days later than scheduled, thereby sending the participating teams’ travel plans haywire.
Most of the teams had their return tickets booked for May 2, as per the initial schedule, but after the revised schedule made May 3 the day of the finals, the organisers decided that those boxers who didn’t make the semifinals be sent back as per the original plan.
–PTI