BHUBANESWAR: Olympic champion Neeraj Chopra is expectedly not competing but all the other top athletes of the country, led by long jumper Murali Sreeshankar, will look to seal Asian Games berths when the National Inter-State Championship begins here Thursday.
Chopra is recovering from an injury but he would have got exemption even if he was fit since he was to train to be ready for top-level global events in the run-up to the World Championships in August in Budapest.
