With long jump at the recent Diamond League happening late at night, M. Sreeshankar missed watching Simon Ehammer make Swiss history in Oslo but he had a close look at the action on Instagram the next morning.
Sreeshankar, the World No. 8, had to skip Oslo — where Ehammer became the first Swiss male to win a Diamond League title — as he had to be in Bhubaneswar for the inter-State Nationals that began the same day, June 15.
The Athletics Federation of India exempted only two athletes, Olympic champion javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra and Commonwealth Games silver medallist steeple chaser Avinash Sable, from competing in Bhubaneswar.
