New Delhi, Sept. 10 -- When trap shooter Ahvar Rizvi was informed in Kazakhstan that he had earned a berth in India's 2026 Asian Games squad, years of silent heartbreak dissolved into tears.

Eight years earlier, Rizvi had suffered the agony of missing the 2018 Asian Games squad by a solitary point. Shortly after, the discipline in which he was crowned Junior World Champion-Double Trap-was abruptly scrapped from the international shooting calendar, according to a press release from NRAI.

"As soon as I finished my round in Kazakhstan, my coach Vikram Singh Chopra came up and told me that I had been selected for the Asian Games. I was in complete disbelief; my body went numb, and I broke down in tears and hugged him. In 2018, I had missed ...