India suspended from Olympics

Published time: December 05, 2012 10:36
Edited time: December 05, 2012 14:36
Indian athletes at the Olympic teams parade during the opening of the XXX Summer Olympic Games in London. (RIA Novosti/Alexey Filippov)

Indian athletes will be banned from the Olympic Games after the country’s government ignored ICO rules and attempted to interfere with the national Olympic committee election.

­According to Times of India, the elections for the India Olympic Association (IOA) were planned to be held in accordance with the country's Sports Code, which the International Olympic Committee considered a violation of the Olympic charter.

The document strictly forbids "government interference in the Olympic movement”, which resulted in India’s suspension by the IOC a day before the December 6 vote.

But the sanctions weren’t enough to make the country’s sporting officials change their plans.

"We are going ahead with the elections,” Vijay Malhotra, IOA acting president, told ToI. “We are yet to receive any official communication from the IOC. Let us get that first, which we will place before IOA's annual general meeting tomorrow."

The Indians claim the Olympic bosses didn’t even give them a chance to explain their position.   

"IOA has sent a letter to IOC regarding sending two officials to discuss the issue. There was no response from IOC. This is a one-sided decision,"
Abhey Singh Chautala, IOA's incoming president, stressed.

The ban means the India won’t be able to compete in the Olympics and the country will stop getting funds to develop sport from IOC.

The Olympic Council of Asia and the Commonwealth Games Federation are also expected to follow the suit, which will see the second most-populous country in the world barred from the Asian Games and the Commonwealth Games as well.

Indian athletes’ only hope is that they’ll be allowed to compete in international events under the IOC flag.

Comments (7)

YB (unregistered) 06.12.2012 17:07

Japanese Reader u bark about India as the land of thivery and corruption n sati n other stuff.. Have a bath u seem to be knowing a completely differnt INDIA all togeather that was when Britishers were in India. U seem to have an extremely poor knowledge about it.
N yea the Ottoman n d Danaos send all the Idians back from Europe n US n UK huh????????  have a look at this n then bark
There are 3.22 million Indians in USA - 1.5 percent of population, yet:

38 percent of doctors in USA are Indians;
12 percent scientists in USA are Indians;
36 percent of NASA scientists are Indians;
34 percent of Microsoft employees are Indians;
28 percent of IBM employees are Indians;
17 percent of INTEL scientists are Indians;
13 percent of XEROX employees are Indians.
Indian s constitute ten percent of all medical students in America.
Indian s own nearly 40 percent of all the small and mid-size hotels in the country.
Four out of 10 Silicon Valley startups are run by Indians.
Indian s are the richest immigrant class in the US, with nearly 200,000 millionaires.
B etween 1990 and 2000, the population of Indian scientists and engineers (S and E) in Silicon Valley grew by 646%.
Now wonder what will happen??
We are not racists your thinking stinks.
Change it first n dn try to bark.

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AtomicReader (unregistered) 06.12.2012 12:02

What is this, the comment section for racists? I'm referring specifically to 'Japanese Reader' (the specific one, not in general), Danaos and Ottoman.

Get your heads out of your butts people.

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Japanese Reader (unregistered) 06.12.2012 10:45

India is the land of corruption and thievery. Its no surprise that the gypsies hail from this society. A society with deeply racist caste ideology counting huge groups of people as sub-human (untouchables/dalits ) and wife-burning (sati) as its holy practices is destined to doom. The same society when interbred with Western ideology gave us the ultra-racist "Martial Race" theory.

I see no hope for India or Indian people. We can thank communism in case of China.

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