Delhi World Cup: England shooters want quarantine halved to 7 days

By Navneet Singh New Delhi, Feb 17 : English shooters keen to compete at next month’s Delhi World Cup have been told to undergo a 14-day quarantine here, but they have requested to have it to be halved, citing the seven-day period that their country’s cricket team was in quarantine before the Test series began this month.
England is facing a new variant of coronavirus, and that is why their shooters’ quarantine period is just the double of the other competing countries at the International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) World Cup, to be held from March 18-29 at the Karni Singh Shooting Ranges.
The NRAI, the organisers of the World Cup, has in turn forwarded the English shooters’ plea to the Union health ministry and requested it to reduce the 14-day quarantine period to seven days as they are keen to compete.
“We are hopeful of a positive response from the government,” an NRAI official told IANS.
A total of 42 countries, including England, have confirmed participation, and the NRAI is expecting more than 400 shooters to compete. Tuesday was the deadline for submitting entries.
Shooters from Italy, France and Hungary are the other European nations whose athletes will be seen in action during the 12-day long World Cup being organised in rifle, pistol, and shotgun events. Asian sporting giant China, Japan, Germany, Russia, Australia, and Malaysia are amongst the countries that have decided to skip the New Delhi World Cup, though it offers valuable global ranking points in rifle and pistol disciplines.