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IOA to push for inclusion of shooting in 2022 Commonwealth Games in meeting with CGF officials

Press Trust of India • November 13, 2019, 17:40:19 IST
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It is understood that during Thursday’s meeting, the CGF delegation is unlikely to budge on dropping shooting from the programme and will try to come out with a compromise formula.

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IOA to push for inclusion of shooting in 2022 Commonwealth Games in meeting with CGF officials

New Delhi: The Indian Olympic Association (IOA) will make a last-ditch effort to bring shooting back on the 2022 Birmingham Commonwealth Games roster when it meets top officials of the Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF) here on Thursday. The IOA brass, including President Narinder Batra and Secretary General Rajeev Mehta, along with Sports Minister Kiren Rijiju will meet CGF President Louise Martin and CEO David Grevemberg to protest shooting’s exclusion from the CWG. Shooting has been dropped owing to logistical issues cited by the local organising committee. [caption id=“attachment_7196531” align=“alignleft” width=“380”]Representational image. Reuters Representational image. Reuters[/caption] The meeting was agreed upon following IOA’s proposal to the Sports Ministry in July, to boycott the Games over shooting’s exclusion. According to Mehta, the IOA will try to convince the CGF to reconsider its decision on shooting, citing India’s excellent medal count in the sport. “The main agenda of the meeting is shooting’s exclusion from the Birmingham Games. We will strongly put forward our case before the CGF in front of the Sports Minister. We will try to explain it to them how India’s medals tally will be affected by shooting’s exclusion from the CWG,” Mehta told PTI. “Besides, the CWG boycott matter will also be on the agenda. Let’s see what comes out,” he added. Besides Batra and Mehta, other top IOA officials who will be present during the meeting include Treasurer Anandeshwar Pandey, Senior Vice President Anil Khanna, Vice President Sudhanshu Mittal and life Vice-President of the Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) and former IOA Secretary General Randhir Singh. Shooting has always been one of India’s top medal contributors in the CWG. The discipline yielded 16 medals, including seven gold at the last edition of the event in Gold Coast. For the first time since 1974, the sport has been excluded from the Games roster. In protest, the IOA had threatened to pull out of the Games if shooting was not reinstated. It is understood that during Thursday’s meeting, the CGF delegation is unlikely to budge on dropping shooting from the programme and will try to come out with a compromise formula. Meanwhile, the CGF delegation will also visit some venues of the Delhi 2010 Commonwealth Games and have a meeting with the IOA Athletes Commission during it’s two-day visit

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