Asian Games: No Plan B as India loses key equestrian spot to administrative lapse
New Delhi: India’s Asian Games equestrian campaign has suffered a significant blow, with the country set to enter the Eventing competition with only three rider-horse combinations after an administrative lapse cost it a fourth entry at the upcoming event.
Capt Ahaan Kumar’s horse, Bolivar Gio Granno , tested positive for equine piroplasmosis — a tick-borne protozoal infection — just three weeks before the competition in Aichi-Nagoya. It may be an “unfortunate” setback for the Indian contingent, but the episode also raises an uncomfortable question: why were India’s reserve horses not blood-tested and kept competition-ready when the possibility of a late withdrawal was always a realistic one?
Capt Ahaan Kumar’s horse, Bolivar Gio Granno , tested positive for equine piroplasmosis — a tick-borne protozoal infection — just three weeks before the competition in Aichi-Nagoya. It may be an “unfortunate” setback for the Indian contingent, but the episode also raises an uncomfortable question: why were India’s reserve horses not blood-tested and kept competition-ready when the possibility of a late withdrawal was always a realistic one?
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