India's veteran table tennis player Sharat Kamal is in line to play his fourth Olympics in July-August, but he wants the IOC to postpone the outbreak due to the Kovid-19 pandemic. Sharat won the ITTF Oman Open title last week, which was his first trophy in 10 years. Sharat has kept himself away after returning home from Muscat in the early hours of Monday.

According to reports, the International Table Tennis Federation has postponed all its tournaments till the end of April and the Asian Olympic qualifying competition in Bangkok next month has also been postponed indefinitely. The 37-year-old player said that as a player, I would definitely like the Olympics to be held, but it should not happen in view of the virus. The center of the virus will keep changing, previously it was China, now it is Italy and Iran in Asia is also getting badly affected. I do not think it is safe to start at Olympic time.

For information, let us tell that he said that everyone is talking about creating community distance, but this will not be possible in the Olympics. Thousands of players will be staying in the Olympic village. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has not yet decided on the Olympics, and its chairman Thomas Bak said earlier this week that it would be too early to do so. Due to Kovid-19, more than 11 thousand people have lost their lives worldwide. Sharat has a world ranking of 38 and G Sathiyan, who is ranked 31, will qualify based on his ranking, even if the qualification events are not held due to Kovid-19. Sharat said that if there is no tournament going on at the moment, there will be no change in the ranking. If things remain the same then we should qualify based on our ranking.

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