New Delhi: Wrestler Sushil Kumar on Monday moved the Delhi High Court seeking to hold trials for the 74kg class to secure a berth in the Indian wrestling squad for the upcoming Rio Olympics. The case would come up for hearing on Tuesday.

Sushil Kumar won bronze in the 2008 Beijing Olympics and then silver in London in 2012 in the 66kg division but this was abolished by the International Wrestling Federation (FILA) in 2014.

This prompted him to move up to the 74kg weight category which brought him into direct competition with Narsingh Yadav, who was the top Indian wrestler in this class till then. Sushil Kumar missed the qualification for Rio Olympics due to injury, and Narsingh Yadav was able to secure the quota for representing the country.

After repeatedly requesting the Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) and being denied time and again, Sushil moved the court for relief.

In Rio de Janeiro, Brazilian athletes have given their seal of approval to the Carioca 2 Arena after the Rio 2016 Olympic venue was officially opened.

The 10,000-seat facility — part of the Olympic Park complex in Rio’s southwestern neighbourhood of Barra da Tijuca — will host judo, wrestling and boccia at the Olympic and Paralympic Games in August and September.

“To see everything ready like this is even more motivation,” London 2012 Olympic judo champion Sarah Menezes told Rio2016.com on Saturday. “It’s a sign that it’s nearly here, it’s close.”

Joice Silva, one of the favourites for the -58kg freestyle wrestling gold medal in Rio, said: “I am already starting to imagine, to visualise my day, how it is all going to be,” Silva said. “Seeing everything ready makes me calmer, just being able to know where everything will be.”

Another athlete impressed by the venue was Maciel Santos, gold medallist in the individual BC2 boccia at the London Paralympic Games.

“You see yourself, the court, the crowd, your relatives, the Brazilian fans. It will be like it was in London,” Santos said. “I hope the Brazilian public really gets behind this Paralympic sport.”