He has been training in Greece for the last one month and M. Sreeshankar has now picked up a bit of Greek. And as the long jumper landed in Paris on Thursday evening for Friday’s Diamond League, he was hoping that the Greek gods would favour him with good weather and conditions at the Charlety Stadium.
“The weather has been quite unpredictable this year. Today it looks pretty ideal, hope it stays good tomorrow,” said the Commonwealth Games silver medallist in a chat with The Hindu.
The World No. 8 has an 8.29m jump this season (USA, April) but since it came with a +3.1 wind, it will not help him to make the qualification standard for this August’s World Championships in Budapest where the automatic entry standard is 8.25m and the deadline to achieve it is July 30.