Thomas farnik

Prime Minister Narendra Modi:  Just over a week after concluding their historic 19th Asian Games campaign where they won 22 medals including seven gold, the Indian shooting squad is back at a national camp to prepare for the upcoming 15th Asian Shooting Championship (ASC) in Changwon, Korea.

The championship assumes added significance, given they will offer a total of 24 Paris Olympic quota places, equally divided across the 12 individual Olympic events in the Rifle, Pistol and Shotgun categories. The Indian squad has already won seven Paris quotas in Shooting and will be looking to garner as many of the 17 that they can possibly win in Changwon.

The entire squad including coaches and support staff checked in to their accommodations on October 9, itself and after attending the felicitation cum welcome event for the successful Asian Games squad hosted by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, they got down to training in earnest on Wednesday morning.