Instead, they grappled with 14, 15 year-old French wrestlers who were the trainees of a local wrestling club in the border town of Lorraine. There were teams last year, and the selectors would take that into account. Open warm-up tournaments in Montreal and Cincinnati due to injury. before the tournament,” WFI’s assistant secretary Vinod Tomar had said before the team’s departure. “It’s the same thing we see in Monza today. “It would be something very special to win here _ also given the anniversary _ but it would be a bad sign if we were only to try hard here and not anywhere else. It summed up India’s woeful preparation, resulting in none of the 24 wrestlers crossing the quarterfinal stage of the world championships, which concluded in Paris last week. I was given the job, as chairman of the Cricket Affairs Committee, to pick the various selectors, coaches, managers and trainers for the upcoming season. While a similar scenario with Team India resulted in the senior players having their way and coach A. She told Vogue magazine last month about her “outrageous plan” to defend her title in Australia, where the year’s first grand slam will be played from Jan.