bengaluru the karnataka athletics associations kaa decision to shift the venue of the state meet from here to udupi at short notice has put top athletes many of whom train at the sree kanteerava stadium in great difficulty as they struggled to get tickets to reach the new venue in timeit is hard for these athletes but they have no choice as the state meet is also the selection trials to pick the team for the interstate championships a noted coach told toion friday olympian pramila aiyappa sought the help of the athletics federation of india afi the afi calendar came out months back but the kaa couldnt arrange the dates for the state meet they have changed the dates several times and yesterday they shifted it to udupi pramila wrote in her letter to top afi officialsif we complain kaa officials even try to blackmail including me all the athletes are fed up with kaa and last year was the first time when there was not even a single athlete from karnataka in the indian olympic squad pramila said in her letterlater pramila told toi that afi officials had taken note of the complaints but my daughter unnathi aiyappa will be forced to skip the meet as it has been moved to udupi she addedbangalore urban district athletics association budaa secretary reeth abraham also voiced her concern we were ready to host the meet but the kaa didnt allow us she saidkaa secretary a rajavelu didnt respond to calls