Games-Indian Wushu team 荒廃させるd after ビザ 問題/発行する 封鎖するs 競技者s from Hangzhou

By ツバメ Quin Pollard

HANGZHOU, Sept 24 (Reuters) - The three Indian 戦争の arts 競技者s unable to compete at the Hangzhou Asian Games 予定 to a 政治上-告発(する),告訴(する)/料金d ビザ 問題/発行する are "mentally broken" by the 事件/事情/状勢, team-mates told Reuters on Sunday.

The absent trio - Mepung Lamgu, Nyeman Wangsu and Onilu Tega - come from Arunachal Pradesh, a 明言する/公表する in the northeast of India which 中国 (人命などを)奪う,主張するs as part of Tibet.

The Wushu 競技者s were 問題/発行するd with 中心的要素d 中国 ビザs instead of stamped ones, によれば India's foreign 省, meaning they could not travel as India does not 受託する 中心的要素d ビザs as valid.

"I trained in the (軍の)野営地,陣営s with them, but it feels so sad because they also tried very hard to get in this position," Anjul Namdeo, 31, told Reuters, after a sixth-placed finish in the men's Changquan final.

"As an 競技者 I feel very bad, but it's up to the 省. I can't do anything.

"いつかs they talk to me because it´s every sports players dream to 成し遂げる in this 円形競技場, biggest 円形競技場 like this," Namdeo 追加するd. "It's like Asia's olympics. So they feel sad. They feel broken, you can say, because they also trained so hard."

Suraj Singh Mayanglambam, a 24-year-old from Manipur, which lies の近くに to Arunachal Pradesh though not on a 国境 with 中国, was 類似して 荒廃させるd by the news.

"I feel very bad because we are training together, enjoying together all of our events, all of us," a visibly distraught Mayanglambam said に引き続いて his fifth-place finish in the men's Changquan.

"The 事柄 is so upsetting. They have been 準備するing every day for months. Now all 傷害, time, energy, all a waste ... They're at home now 準備するing f or the world 選手権 but feel very upset because of this, mentally 決裂/故障 on this."

One of the trio, Lamgu, on Saturday 地位,任命するd on X, 以前は Twitter, that she was "alright" and 安全な in India に引き続いて 報告(する)/憶測s in Indian マスコミ that she had gone 行方不明の after 存在 unable to compete.

But on Sunday she was still on the start 名簿(に載せる)/表(にあげる) for her event given to 新聞記者/雑誌記者s at the 競争 発生地 in the remote southeast 郊外s of Hangzhou.

Several of her 競争相手s, 含むing 17-year-old Zeanne 法律 Zhi Ning from Singapore, only 設立する out at the last minute.

"I think it's a pity for them," she said. "I just hope they manage to get a ビザ for the next 競争 coming."

NO BORDERS

Fans were likewise unaware, but when asked several took the 味方する of the 競技者s.

"I feel very sorry about this," said a 地元の middle school teacher of politics, surnamed Guo, 24.

"I feel that everything should be done for 競技者s to be able to compete ... Sport has no 国境s."

The Olympic 会議 of Asia (OCA) and Asian Games organisers are 診察するing the ビザ 問題/発行する, 事実上の/代理 OCA 大統領 Randhir Singh said on Sunday.

Wei Jizhong, chairman of the OCA's 倫理学 委員会, told reporters last week that 中国 did not 辞退する 入ること/参加(者) to the 競技者s.

The practice of 問題/発行するing ビザs on loose sheets of paper has been seen as 中国's way of 尋問 India's 主権,独立 over Arunachal Pradesh.

Beijing and New Delhi fought a war over the 論争d Himalayan frontier in 1962 and have been uneasy 隣人s ever since.

Relations nosedived in 2020 over a 国境 衝突/不一致 in which 20 Indian and four Chinese 兵士s were kill ed, and より悪くするd again recently when Beijing published its 最新の 公式の/役人 地図/計画する (人命などを)奪う,主張するing parts of northeast India as its own 領土.

Players and fans told Reuters they hope the two 政府s can 解決する this as soon as possible.

"The 政府s should finish this item," Mayanglambam said. "It's not the 義務 of the player."

Wushu is a 集団の/共同の 称する,呼ぶ/期間/用語 for the 戦争の arts that 起こる/始まるd and were developed over centuries in 中国. Famous practitioners 含む film 星/主役にするs Jet Li and Donnie Yen.

Wushu became an Asian Games sport for the first time in Beijing in 1990 and at the Games it is divided into sanda (sparring) and taolu (決まりきった仕事-based) events, 含むing Changquan and Taijijian.

The sport has tried and failed on several occasions to become an Olympic event, but the 競技者s Reuters spoke to on Sunday were all 希望に満ちた that will one day change. (報告(する)/憶測ing by Ian 身代金 and ツバメ Quin Pollard; Editing by David Holmes)

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