IOC serves ultimatum to IOA
New Delhi: International Olympic Committee on Friday served an ultimatum to India, saying that the country will be de-recognised if the Indian Olympic Association does not amend its constitution by December 10 as per the world body’s earlier diktat of barring charge-framed persons from contesting elections. The IOC rejected suspended IOA’s proposal passed in its October 27 Special General Body Meeting to refer the cases of charge-framed persons to an internal Ethics Commission instead of barring them from contesting elections and asked it to include a clause in its constitution to provisionally suspend them until a final ruling is made. “This is to follow up on the letter dated 3 November 2013 from Mr Regunathan to IOC President and amendments to the IOA Constitution adopted on 27 October 2013, which we received on 6 November 2013,” the letter, written by IOC Director General Christophe De Kepper and addressed to IOA officials, said. “The specific clause which has been included in Article V (ii)(c); XI(1)(g)(iv); and XXII(v) concerning any IOA member charge-framed by a Court in India with respect to an offence which is of serious nature under Indian Penal Code/Prevention of Corruption Act is not satisfactory and does not meet IOC’s requirements expressed in our letter of 5 September 2013. “It was indeed requested that this clause mention expressly that such members will not be eligible to run for IOA elections and will be provisionally suspended from the IOA until a final ruling is made,” said the letter, a copy of which was also marked to IOC chief Thomas Bach and Sports Minister Jitendra Singh.
WADA probes Sochi testing lab
Johannesburg: Doping tests for next year’s Winter Olympics in Russia and football World Cup in Brazil might be a foreign affair, as global doping policing body WADA hinted it is investigating the Moscow laboratory. Outgoing World Anti-Doping Agency president John Fahey confirmed “there is a matter that is being considered” about Russia’s accredited anti-doping testing lab, three months after WADA revoked accreditation for Rio de Janeiro. He gave no time-frame for the probe, but would comment “when the process is properly concluded”, Fahey told media at a global anti-doping conference in Johannesburg on Thursday.
Harjot Singh wins three gold medals
Asansol: Chandigarh boy Harjot Singh created a new record in the 23rd All India G V Mavlankar Shooting Championship here by winning three gold medals. On Friday, the penultimate day of the 10-day Shooting championship, Harjot won his third gold medal in the 25 metre standard pistol junior men individual event with 265 points. Earlier, he had won gold medals in the 25 metre centre fire pistol in junior men’s individual with 261 point and 25 metre sport pistol junior men’s individual with 265 points. local boy Kalyan Banerjee won the gold medal in 50 metre men’s individual small bore free rifle prone with 501 point.
India held to 1-1 draw by Philippines
Siliguri: Sunil Chhetri found the net once but Philip James Younghusband neutralised within a minute of the Indian football team captain’s strike as Philippines held the hosts to a 1-1 draw in their international friendly here on Friday. Chhetri gave India the lead in the 43rd minute. Following one of Mehtab Hossain’s corner, he headed it in to bulge the net. The crowd went berserk at the the lush-green Kanchenjunga Stadium as Chhetri touched Bhaichung Bhutia as India’s highest-ever goalscorer on 42 goals.
Haryana ends day with medal rush
Kolkata: Promising Indian wrestler Amit Dhankar began the season on a high as the 24-year-old led Haryana’s gold rush on the opening day of the 58th Senior National Championship at Kshudiram Anushilan Kendra here on Friday. Dhankar, who won the Asian Championship gold for a best ever Indian showing in the continental meet in April this year, got the better of Arun Kumar of Delhi in the 66kg category as Haryana ended the day with five gold, one silver and three bronze medals in the three-day meet.