However, the IOC, which suspended the IOA on Tuesday, made it clear that it won't be recognised. ...
02:32 PM, Dec 05, 2012
New Delhi: Indian athletes have lamented the ban dished out to their national Olympic association by the IOC but hope that it could turn out to be a blessing in disguise and lead to a clean-up of the organisation which runs sport in the country. At a meeting in Lausanne, Switzerland on Tuesday, the IOC banned the Indian Olympic Association (IOA) and said a vote to elect its secretary-general on...
01:36 PM, Dec 05, 2012
Lausanne: The International Olympic Committee on Tuesday said that it decided to ban India as its Olympic body had failed to comply with Olympic Charter and also allowed fielding a tainted official for a top post in the elections. IOC Director of Communications Mark Adams told a press conference here that India was suspended "due to its failure to comply with the Olympic Charter and its statutes and failure to...
04:35 AM, Dec 05, 2012
New Delhi: Sports Minister Jitendra Singh on Tuesday blamed the Indian Olympic Association for India's suspension by the International Olympic Committee, a development which puts a bar on the country's Olympic participation "The Indian Olympic Association is to blame for the current crisis. We told the IOA many times to amend its constitution and be compliant with the international rules," he said. Jitendra said that there was no conflict between ...
12:23 AM, Dec 05, 2012
New Delhi: Former IOA secretary general Randhir Singh on Tuesday said that the IOC's decision to ban the Indian Olympic Association gives an "opportunity" to clean the mess, and insisted that the international body is not against the country but against the system. "The mess that is happening today in the Olympic committee needs to be cleaned up. I think what we are heading for now with this suspension is...
12:12 AM, Dec 05, 2012
Indian athletes will be barred from competing in Olympic events under their national flag. ...
11:45 PM, Dec 04, 2012
The Indian Olympic Association has been suspended by IOC for holding elections under a controversial government sports code. ...
11:29 PM, Dec 04, 2012
Due to suspension, the IOA will stop receiving IOC funding and its officials will be banned from attending Olympic meetings and events. ...
10:18 PM, Dec 04, 2012
The International Olympics Committee on Tuesday suspended IOA for adhering to government guidelines in conducting the association's election. ...
10:07 PM, Dec 04, 2012
The International Olympic Committee on Tuesday suspended the Indian Olympic Association citing government interference. ...
09:24 PM, Dec 04, 2012
New Delhi: Faced with a threat of disaffiliation from its parent body, the Indian Olympic Association on Saturday said that it had not violated the Olympic Charter nor the government guidelines in its election process and the International Olympic Council should not take action against it. Talking to reporters here, IOA acting chief V K Malhotra said the Election Commission of retired judges of High Court have not found any...
04:55 PM, Dec 01, 2012
CWG-tainted Lalit Bhanot has been elected unopposed as the secretary general of the Indian Olympic Association. ...
08:32 PM, Nov 30, 2012
New Delhi: Abhay Singh Chautala, the lone presidential candidate of the Indian Olympic Association (IOA), said Friday that he was hopeful of an early solution to the problem confronting the Dec 5 scheduled IOA election and accused secretary general Randhir Singh of misleading International Olympic Committee ((IOC) on the polls. Randhir Singh had misled the IOC for his own interests, Chautala said. "It was because of this attitude all sorts...
08:07 PM, Nov 30, 2012
New Delhi: Rattled by the International Olympic's committee's renewed threat to suspend India, the IOA is sending a two-member delegation to Lausanne to meet top IOC officials and resolve the vexed issues surrounding its upcoming elections. After a series of meetings among top IOA officials right through the day, it was decided that Hockey India secretary general Narinder Batra and lawyer R K Anand will fly to Lausanne soon to...
08:56 PM, Nov 29, 2012
Mumba: Indian Olympic Association (IOA) can still avoid an Olympic suspension by calling off its controversial December 5 election, its secretary general Randhir Singh told Reuters on Thursday. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) will propose the suspension to its Executive Board next week after being told that government regulations would apply for the IOA election. "I think we can still avoid it by calling off the elections," Singh, who has...
04:19 PM, Nov 29, 2012
India faces suspension by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) due to government interference in the forthcoming election of its national Olympic body. ...
12:47 AM, Nov 29, 2012
India's apex sports body, the IOA faces suspension for deciding to go ahead with elections despite a warning from the IOC. ...
12:10 AM, Nov 29, 2012
The International Olympic Committee on Wednesday made it clear that it will propose the suspension of IOA in its Executive Board Meeting early next month. ...
09:37 PM, Nov 28, 2012
New Delhi: The drama surrounding the Indian Olympic Association (IOA) took a fresh twist on Wednesday when the International Olympic Committee (IOC) confirmed their stand on the IOA's suspension. Earlier on Friday, the world body had warned the IOA of the same if the December 5 polls were conducted as per the government's Sports Code. The IOC on Wednesday proposed the idea of a suspension at the executive board meeting...
06:02 PM, Nov 28, 2012
New Delhi: Beijing Olympics gold medallist shooter Abhinav Bindra on Tuesday criticised the country's sports administrators for pushing the athletes' interest in the background in the bitter campaign ahead of the controversy-marred IOA elections. Bindra, who was taking part in an event in Munich, said he was shocked when some people told him that India could be disaffiliated by the IOC if the IOA elections are held under the government's...
11:09 PM, Nov 27, 2012
