bengaluru doubts over ace discus thrower vikas gowdas participation in the rio olympics were dispelled when the athletics federation of india afi confirmed that the mysorean a twotime olympian is recovering well from a nagging thigh injury at his training base in the usabout 10 days back we had received a video of vikas training at the john godina world throws centre in phoenix for the games afi secretary ck valson told toi and added that the towering indian was now all set to compete at the rio gamesvikas who qualified for rio last april has not competed in a single competition this season raising doubts over the fitness levels of the athlete just a few weeks ahead of the gamesthe top athlete who was troubled by the injury since february and underwent procedures also said that he was getting confident about the games i think im moving in the right direction vikas was quoted as saying by the frederick news post the preliminary round of the discus event is scheduled for august 12 and the final the following dayneeraj chopra getty imagesno wildcard for neerajthe afi official also said that all efforts by the federation to get a wildcard for javelin thrower neeraj chopra the world u20 recordholder has failedthe iaaf has communicated that they wont entertain our request as it would lead to similar demands from other countries we had taken up the matter at the highest level and also with the loc but the technical delegate and the event organiser have both said no to our requests valson saidthe 18yearold from panipat who won the world u20 gold with an effort of 8648 missed the rio bus as the effort came after the july 11 olympic qualification cutoff date