{"id":371767,"date":"2023-09-23T14:24:38","date_gmt":"2023-09-23T14:24:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/blog\/2023\/09\/23\/indian-wushu-player-says-shes-alright-asian-games-2023-news-times-of-india\/"},"modified":"2023-09-23T14:24:38","modified_gmt":"2023-09-23T14:24:38","slug":"indian-wushu-player-says-shes-alright-asian-games-2023-news-times-of-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/blog\/2023\/09\/23\/indian-wushu-player-says-shes-alright-asian-games-2023-news-times-of-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian wushu player says she&#8217;s &#8216;alright&#8217; | Asian Games 2023 News &#8211; Times of India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/photo\/msid-103892990,imgsize-48122.cms\" \/><\/p>\n<div>NEW DELHI: Indian <!-- -->wushu<!-- --> player <!-- -->Mepung Lamgu<!-- -->, who failed to make it to the <!-- -->Asian Games<!-- --> because of diplomatic issues with China, on Saturday said she is &#8220;alright&#8221;, providing relief to her family members in Arunachal Pradesh.<br \/>&#8220;I am alright and currently in SAI Hostel,&#8221; wrote Lamgu on her newly-opened social media account &#8216;X&#8217;, a day after her brother in Arunachal Pradesh said that she had gone incommunicado after being denied visa to travel to China for the Games.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am in constant touch with my family and there&#8217;s nothing to worry about. Thanks for the concern and support,&#8221; she added.<br \/>She also attached a photo of her having breakfast with SAI officers.<br \/>&#8220;We stand with the three #AsianGames2022 bound Wushu athletes, taking the utmost care for them at this hour. The three athletes are being taken care of at the SAI Hostel,&#8221; the media department of the nodal sports body posted.<\/p>\n<p>Lamgu, along with <!-- -->Nyeman Wangsu<!-- -->, <!-- -->Onilu Tega<!-- --> were denied accreditation, which also works as visa, by the Chinese authorities.<br \/>They were part of the 11-member wushu contingent but after reaching airport, the trio had to return to their SAI hostel after being denied visa.<br \/>The northeastern Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh is viewed by China in its entirety as Chinese territory.<br \/>According to her brother Gandhi Lamgu, who is a doctor in Itanagar, she was crying inconsolably after the denial of proper visa.<br \/>&#8220;Now she&#8217;s not even taking our calls, and it&#8217;s coming switched off. So we are also very worried about her, kahin kuch kar na de ro ro ke (hope she doesn&#8217;t take any extreme step as she is crying inconsolably),&#8221; Gandhi had told PTI on Friday.<br \/>Lamgu, who won a silver and a bronze at the Moscow Wushu Star meet last two years, was a medal prospect for India at the Asian Games.<br \/>Mepung made her first mark as a junior by winning a bronze in the International Wushu Championship in Georgia in 2016.<br \/>She then went on to win two gold medals in Moscow Wushu Star 2022, and this year she won a bronze in the same meet at Moscow.<br \/>She also shone at the Gujarat National Games, returning with a gold medal and then visited her hometown in Seppa.<\/div>\n<p><script>!(function(f, b, e, v, n, t, s) {\n    function loadFBEvents(isFBCampaignActive) {\n      if (!isFBCampaignActive) {\n        return;\n      }\n      (function(f, b, e, v, n, t, s) {\n        if (f.fbq) return;\n        n = f.fbq = function() {\n          n.callMethod ? n.callMethod(...arguments) : n.queue.push(arguments);\n        };\n        if (!f._fbq) f._fbq = n;\n        n.push = n;\n        n.loaded = !0;\n        n.version = '2.0';\n        n.queue = [];\n        t = b.createElement(e);\n        t.async = !0;\n        t.defer = !0;\n        t.src = v;\n        s = b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n        s.parentNode.insertBefore(t, s);\n      })(f, b, e, 'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js', n, t, s);\n      fbq('init', '593671331875494');\n      fbq('track', 'PageView');\n    };<\/p>\n<p>    function loadGtagEvents(isGoogleCampaignActive) {\n      if (!isGoogleCampaignActive) {\n        return;\n      }\n      var id = document.getElementById('toi-plus-google-campaign');\n      if (id) {\n        return;\n      }\n      (function(f, b, e, v, n, t, s) {\n        t = b.createElement(e);\n        t.async = !0;\n        t.defer = !0;\n        t.src = v;\n        t.id = 'toi-plus-google-campaign';\n        s = b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n        s.parentNode.insertBefore(t, s);\n      })(f, b, e, 'https:\/\/www.googletagmanager.com\/gtag\/js?id=AW-877820074', n, t, s);\n    };<\/p>\n<p>    window.TimesApps = window.TimesApps || {};\n    var TimesApps = window.TimesApps;\n    TimesApps.toiPlusEvents = function(config) {\n      var isConfigAvailable = \"toiplus_site_settings\" in f && \"isFBCampaignActive\" in f.toiplus_site_settings && \"isGoogleCampaignActive\" in f.toiplus_site_settings;\n      var isPrimeUser = window.isPrime;\n      if (isConfigAvailable && !isPrimeUser) {\n        loadGtagEvents(f.toiplus_site_settings.isGoogleCampaignActive);\n        loadFBEvents(f.toiplus_site_settings.isFBCampaignActive);\n      } else {\n        var JarvisUrl=\"https:\/\/jarvis.indiatimes.com\/v1\/feeds\/toi_plus\/site_settings\/643526e21443833f0c454615?db_env=published\";\n        window.getFromClient(JarvisUrl, function(config){\n          if (config) {\n            loadGtagEvents(config?.isGoogleCampaignActive);\n            loadFBEvents(config?.isFBCampaignActive);\n          }\n        })\n      }\n    };\n  })(\n    window,\n    document,\n    'script',\n  );<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/sports\/asian-games-2023\/india-asian-games\/indian-wushu-player-says-shes-alright\/articleshow\/103892953.cms\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] NEW DELHI: Indian wushu player Mepung Lamgu, who failed to make it to the Asian Games because of diplomatic issues with China, on Saturday said she is &#8220;alright&#8221;, providing relief to her family members in Arunachal Pradesh.&#8220;I am alright and currently in SAI Hostel,&#8221; 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