A nation's shame: Indian sports without an Indian flag

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A nation's shame: Indian sports without an Indian flag

What kind of super power nation (pun intended) we have been squeezed into by Sonia Gandhi lead UPA ?

Indian athletes won 14 medals at the Youth Olympic Games in China. No anthem was played, no tri-colour was furled! The sorry state of Indian sports is such that the athletes had to participate under the flag of Olympic Council of Asia – Indian Olympic Association currently being provisionally banned.

 

[W.G.Ewald]

Will India's ban from the Olympic fold be lifted? Video: NDTV.com

The Indian Olympic Association has been serving a ban handed out by the International Olympic Committee since December last year, declaring their elections null and void. Members of the IOC and the IOA will meet on Sunday in an attempt to resolve the situation. However, if reports are to be believed the IOA will request for more time before accepting the IOC's new draft constitution, that bars tainted persons from standing for elections for Olympic bodies.

 

[W.G.Ewald]

IOC agrees to take India back in Olympic fold - The Hindu

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) will soon lift the ban on the Indian Olympic Association (IOA) as Indian representatives from the government and sports bodies reached an agreement with IOC officials at a meeting in Lausanne, Switzerland, on Wednesday. IOC and IOA representatives framed a roadmap for India's return to the Olympics fold, after the Union Sports Minister Jitendra Singh convinced the IOC that the Sports Bill — initially seen by the IOC as a sign of government interference — is necessary for good governance of Indian sports.

The recent suspension of India from the Olympic movement was widely held by many sports lovers across the country as a serious setback. Leading sportspersons, such as Olympic shooting champion Abhinav Bindra who represented athletes in the IOC meeting, felt that the developments in Lausanne would pave the way for better administration of sports in the country. "The fact that they are willing to work on the sports bill for reforms is the biggest positive," said Bindra from Lausanne.

 

[drkrn]

A nation's shame: Indian sports without an Indian flag

What kind of super power nation (pun intended) we have been squeezed into by Sonia Gandhi lead UPA ?

i am happy that IOC is banned as those organisations have become political rehabilitation centers

 

[amoy]

i am happy that IOC is banned as those organisations have become political rehabilitation centers

ooooops ... not IOC was banned but its member IOA was banished, provisionally though

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[Ray]

GAME THEORY

There can be little disagreement on the point that barring a few instances the administration of sports in India is run by men who are not above board in terms of ethics and integrity. There are men in various sports bodies who have no interest in sports but find in the latter a convenient route to make money and to extend their patronage. This goes against the very idea of sports as an activity that is pure and aimed at testing the physical skill and stamina of human beings. The International Olympic Committee, which sees itself as a body committed to maintaining the highest standards in sports, is entirely justified in viewing the Indian Olympic Association with some amount of suspicion. It will be recalled that India was suspended from the Olympic movement in December 2012 after Lalit Bhanot was elected the secretary-general of the IOA. Mr Bhanot has been charged with corruption regarding his activities in the Commonwealth Games of 2010 which were plagued by crass corruption and rank inefficiency. The IOC's point has been simple: it has asked the IOA to amend its constitution so that persons with chargesheets against them cannot become office-bearers. The IOA took shelter behind the argument that there is a difference between a chargesheet and a conviction. The IOA said it was willing to bar those who had been convicted from holding office. This plea of the IOA has not been accepted so the ban on India remains.

The principle of "innocent till proven guilty" is a nice point of jurisprudence and is valid in the court of law. But the IOC is not making a legal point. It is most emphatically making an ethical point. It is linking the highest standards of ethics with the high standards expected from all those related to sporting activities. Sportsmen and sports administrators, like Caesar's wife, should be above suspicion and should act as exemplars to the rest of society. This is what the IOC expects in keeping with the noble aims and aspirations of the Olympic Games. It is true that with the growth of intense competition in sports, the high ethical standards associated with sporting activities have nose dived. But no one as yet has advocated tolerance towards corruption. The IOA should stop quibbling and accept the point that the IOC is making. Sportsmen in India should not be made victims of the IOA's stubbornness and of its petty vested interests.

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