Promising gymnast Dipa Karmakar, the women's hockey team and shooter Heena Sidhu toady checked into the Olympic Village to further boost the Indian contingent at the Rio Games beginning on August 5.
Checking into the Olympic Village, Dipa was gung-ho having secured her place into the Olympic Games in the same venue during the Test event for the Games.
"I have happy memories so I am looking forward to the Games," she said, as she was accompanied by her coach Bisweswar Nandi.
"It was a long journey but I am hoping to adjust within a day or two and will get down to the gym and training," said Dipa.
"I have already found out where the gym is, the swimming pool and various other facilities, so we have begun to settle in," she added.
Dipa and Nandi met Indian contingent Chef-de-Mission Rakesh Gupta, who has been meeting all the athletes arriving into the Village.
"Abhinav Bindra, Heena Sidhu, boxer Shiva Thapa and Dipa have all checked in the past couple of days, as have the women's hockey team. The men's hockey team arrived a day earlier, so we are nearing our full strength. The teething problems in the Village have been sorted out and it is improving each day. We still have six days to go for the start, and the athletes are beginning to feel comfortable," said Gupta.
Heena, one of India's leading hopes in shooting, arrived from Germany. She was accompanied by Ronak Pandit, her husband and coach and a former Commonwealth Games gold medallist.
She said she was looking forward to settling in and getting acclimatised.
"It was a 12-hour flight from Germany and the first priority is to get rest and then get down to training," she said.
