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IOC's Bach: India Could Be Kicked out of Olympics - ABC News

India faces the ultimate sanction of expulsion from the Olympics unless it keeps corruption-tainted officials out of its ranks, IOC President Thomas Bach said in an interview with The Associated Press.

Bach said the IOC is prepared to withdraw recognition of the Indian Olympic Association if it fails to comply with "rules of good governance" by Tuesday, a punishment that would leave the world's second-most populous nation out of all Olympic competitions.

"It's about the principles," Bach said. "Good governance for the IOC is a key issue. We need to be strict and to make sure the rules of good governance are being applied."

If India is thrown out, it would be the first time a country has been kicked out of the Olympic movement since South Africa was expelled for its racial segregation policies more than 40 years ago.

The Indian Olympic body is scheduled to meet Sunday in New Delhi to consider amending its constitution to meet the IOC's directive. If there is no breakthrough, the International Olympic Committee executive board is set to recommend "de-recognition" of the Indian committee at its meeting on Tuesday in Lausanne.

"'We will see if there is any last-moment movement," Bach said. "If not, then we have to consider to take the next step."

The IOC suspended the Indian body a year ago because of government interference in its election process. While many of the issues have been resolved since then, the Indians have yet to agree to the IOC demand to bar officials who have been charged with a criminal offense — an impasse that has led to the final ultimatum.

"The (Olympic) charter is clear," Bach said. "If the suspension leads to no solution, then further steps could be withdrawal of recognition."

It would be the first major ruling of the IOC board under Bach, who was elected president on Sept. 10, succeeding Jacques Rogge. Bach is the former president of Germany's national Olympic committee.

The IOC executive board could take a preliminary decision on withdrawing recognition of India. A final ruling would go to the full IOC, which next meets in early February in Sochi, Russia, on the eve of the 2014 Winter Olympics.

"Withdrawal of recognition would mean there is no NOC (National Olympic Committee) any more in India," Bach said. "That means no participation, no subsidies."

Under the current suspension, the Indian body has stopped receiving IOC funding and its officials have been banned from attending Olympic meetings and events. India's athletes are barred from competing in Olympic events under their national flag.

Stripping India completely of IOC recognition would leave the country without any Olympic involvement. It would keep Indian athletes out of the Olympics and related events such as the Asian Games. Other international federations could also follow suit.

The IOC has given athletes from suspended nations the chance to compete as individuals under the Olympic flag. It's unclear what options could be open to Indian athletes if their Olympic body is expelled.

"In the Olympics we would have to see whether we would find individual solutions, but they could in no way represent India," Bach said. "We always want to protect the interest of the athletes. We have to consider a way. I cannot tell you what the result will be."


Is India the new hermit state? First, it refused to participate in PISA, now it could be kicked out of the Olympics. Participating in international institutions is a basic rite for all non-pariah countries; even North Korea sends athletes to the Olympics (and does a lot better than India, might I add). Will India withdraw from the UN too?
 
Page 2 you forgot to add.

The IOC has been involved in discussions with India for months. The main issue stems from last year's election of IOA secretary-general Lalit Bhanot, who had been jailed for 10 months in a corruption case related to the 2010 Commonwealth Games in New Delhi.

The IOC has told the Indian body that anyone charged with an offense by Indian police should be barred from holding office. The Indians have proposed that the directive be limited to barring only those found guilty and sentenced to a jail term of two or more years by a court.

"This is the only remaining point," Bach said. "It's about good governance and nothing else at this moment. All the other issues have been solved in cooperation with the NOC, with the government."

The IOC formally expelled South Africa from the Olympics in 1970. The country, which had last competed at the 1960 Olympics, returned to the fold at the 1992 Barcelona Games.

In recent years, the IOC suspended the national Olympic bodies of Kuwait, Ghana and Panama for political interference, but all were eventually reinstated.

IOC's Bach: India Could Be Kicked out of Olympics - ABC News




Is India the new hermit state? First, it refused to participate in PISA, now it could be kicked out of the Olympics. Participating in international institutions is a basic rite for all non-pariah countries; even North Korea sends athletes to the Olympics (and does a lot better than India, might I add). Will India withdraw from the UN too?

so for the 32 years you did not participate in the olympics was because you were a hermit state a pariah state ?
 
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so for the 32 years you did not participate in the olympics was because you were a hermit state a pariah state ?

Well yes. During the Mao era, we were a hermit state with incomplete diplomatic relations with the rest of the world and no UN representation. But we emerged from that. What's worse is going in a backwards direction and regressing to that stage, as India appears to be at risk.
 
Not surprised
India gives importance to the olympics as much as china gives to ICC world cup

each dominates in its area of interest
 
Well yes. During the Mao era, we were a hermit state with incomplete diplomatic relations with the rest of the world and no UN representation. But we emerged from that. What's worse is going in a backwards direction and regressing to that stage, as India appears to be at risk.

how does your chinese IQ equate a request in change to one clause, then equates to india going to be hermit state. These are ongoing negotiations albeit I support the IOC decision that the clause must be removed...

Your statement reeks of your typical immaturity we have come to expect here.
 
I dare IOC to kick India out of Olympics :lol:
 
India should be kicked out so that it touches each one of the Indian's psyche and the Indian Olympic body is cleaned up and professionalism is introduced and the Commonwealth games kind of ignominy can be avoided. True, it will be disappointing for athletes who had prepared for the upcoming Olympics but there is a need for the public outcry so that the sports committees in India be restructured for the future betterment.
 
how does your chinese IQ equate a request in change to one clause, then equates to india going to be hermit state.

Uh what is this trying to say? Did they kill the English requirements for getting a green card?
 
Not surprised
India gives importance to the olympics as much as china gives to ICC world cup

each dominates in its area of interest

I dont think this is a fair comparison
If cricket is approved by IOC as a sport event in the Olympics, we will have a shot at it; just like hockey. Also Olympics is a truely world event.
 
it is good for india in fact so as to avoid embarrassment.

Is india banned from running the F1 circuit as well?

Their athletes were represented by the Olympic flags in this event

2013 Asian Youth Games - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

So if IOC has made the decision to ban india, they knew this would come since their experience in 2013 AYG!
 
here is the issue. India says that the person they want removed has not been proven guilty in the courts. This person was given bail pending the charges being tired

therefore india says - to remove a person before they are proven guilty could be challenged in their courts. and as such possess a constitutional issue for them
 
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I don't think anyone inside or outside of India will notice the absence of India in the next OG. Their past achievement is nothing to write home about anyway.
 
IOC's Bach: India Could Be Kicked out of Olympics - ABC News




Is India the new hermit state? First, it refused to participate in PISA, now it could be kicked out of the Olympics. Participating in international institutions is a basic rite for all non-pariah countries; even North Korea sends athletes to the Olympics (and does a lot better than India, might I add). Will India withdraw from the UN too?
It deserves to be expelled if it does not mend its ways
 

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