Nepali shooters will have to use decades-old arms and ammunition in the 13th South Asian Games after National Sports Council failed to import new stock for the regional sporting extravaganza.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Nepal Shooting Association Secretary and former chief coach Deepak Khati said the lack of proper equipment would affect shooters\u2019 performance. \u201cPlayers were excited to give their best in a newly-built range but NSC\u2019s inability to import arms on time has robbed shooters of that opportunity,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Khati said NSA had submitted the list of necessary equipment to NSC some eight months ago. \u201cWe had requested NSC to provide us with the equipment at least a month before the games as it takes at least 10-15 days for players to get used to the arms,\u201d he added. \u201cNow that the players will be using old equipment, some of which are from the 1999 SA Games, we are not sure how they will perform in the SA Games,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Nepal got modern shooting facility at the International Sports Complex in Lalitpur after the Chinese government reconstructed three well-equipped shooting ranges \u2014 10m, 25m and 50m \u2014 at an estimated cost of Rs 200 million. But players do not have proper arms to perform at the new range. Khati said the association had to fully rely on the government to import arms and ammunition as it was a sensitive matter. \u201cIt\u2019s not like buying other sports equipment. It takes a lot of paper work. Sadly, NSC did not take our concerns seriously,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Gold medallist in the 10m air rifle event at the eighth national games Sushmita Nepal, who has been
using the gun she received during the youth training programme in Kuwait two years ago, said their hopes of excelling in front of the home crowd had been dashed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cJunior players use the gun which I have been using for the last two years. I was excited at the news that we would be getting modern equipment for the SA Games but that did not happen,\u201d Sushmita told THT<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Sushmita said she had hoped to make it to the final. \u201cI am scoring up to 616 points in training with this gun. I could have done better if I had got the chance to train with new equipment. Now making it to top eight seems really difficult,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Another shooter, Kalpana Pariyar, said they could not prove their calibre due to lack of proper equipment. \u201cWe had set ourselves a target to meet in the SA Games. But we cannot show what we are capable of simply because we do not have the right equipment,\u201d Pariyar added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cStill, we will try to give our best and improve on our scores with what is available,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Nepali shooters will have to use decades-old arms and ammunition in the 13th South Asian…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":1462,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,19,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nepal","category-news","category-sports"],"yoast_head":"\n