Excelsior Sports Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Jan 29: The Senior National Ski and Snowboarding contingent was flagged off by the General Secretary Winter Games Association of J&K, Muhammad Yusuf, here today.
The team is being accompanied by Mahmood Ahmad Lone as Coach, Tahir Shafi as Manager (Men team) and Nazima as Manager (Women team).
The team will be joined by WGAJK President, Mohammad Abbas Wani at Jammu as Chief de Mission.
The Screening of the team was conducted at Srinagar by the Divisional Sports Officers (Kashmir and Central) yesterday and the teams were cleared to take part in Snowboarding (Men), Alpine Skiing (Men and Women) events.
The team will also take part in Criss Ski and Criss Snowboarding, being held first time in India by Winter Games Association of Himachal Pradesh. The President-WGAJK Mr Wani has extended thanks to Secretary State Sports Council for facilitating the teams in this major Winter Sports event of the Country.
Notably the Indian Olympic Association has nominated Muhammad Yusuf, General Secretary WGAJK as Technical Delegate. He will give all reports related to the smooth conduct of the games to the IoA.
This is first time that IoA has nominated any official from J&K as technical delegate for any winter sporting event.
Trending Now
E-Paper
Follow our WhatsApp channel