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Let not just the Games but the debate begin
Updated On: 27 September, 2019 05:12 AM IST | | The Editorial
The chief says that in these Games India wins 70 medals, while at the Olympics we struggle to win even three
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India's Olympic chief Narinder Batra has shot straight from the hip stating that India should pull out of the Commonwealth Games (CWG) permanently because of a paucity of strong competition which makes participation a waste of time and money.
His statement comes in the wake of the Indian Olympic Association threatening to boycott the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, England because of the exclusion of shooting in which India won 16 of its 66 medals in the last CWG in Australia. The chief says that in these Games India wins 70 medals, while at the Olympics we struggle to win even three! We must also be alert of the gap between the rest of the world standards and those of the Commonwealth Games.
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