NEW DELHI: India’s weightlifting body has been fined $ 500,000 after six lifters tested positive last year, a senior weightlifting official said on Saturday.
“The International Weightlifting Federation has decided us the Commonwealth Games in New Delhi in October to pay the fine,” Indian Weightlifting Federation’s recently chosen president Birendra Prasad Baishya Reuters.
“We conventional the letter yesterday. The amount is a 10-year budget for our body. It is easier said than done to mobilize such a large amount,” Baishya said.
Federation secretary Sahadev Yadav said that the IWF has disclosed that the Indian team could not contribute in international events to the very well is paid. “They made the conclusion about two months back, and they brought it to us today. This is blackmail by the IWF,” federation secretary Sahadev Yadav said.
It was speculated in weightlifting circles, could IWF’s tough stand has nothing to do with the recent elections to the Indian confederation was forced to become softer its executive body and go to the polls in the wake of a series of positive dope tests. Sources claimed that the IWF was discontented with the fact that several of the officials who held posts in the last occurrence, came back to the Federation in various positions.
Five second weightlifting, including the 2006 Commonwealth Games silver Vicky Batta, is forbidden for four years and a fine of $ 5000 each for not dope test, “said Yadav.
Batta, Harbhajan Singh, Rajesh Kumar, Vijaya Devi and Sunita Kumari will miss the Commonwealth Games later this year, which India will host in New Delhi.
Indian lifters missed the Asian Games in Doha in 2006 after a 12-month ban on the Federation after four athletes tested positive during the course of a year.
India’s only lifter in the Beijing Olympics was, Monika Devi withdrawn under eIndiens lone lifter in the Beijing Olympics, Monika Devi was introvert over an alleged doping violation. Devi deprived of the charge and fights the claim in court.
