Having missed out a medal at the Rio Olympics following his loss in the quarter-finals, Vikas Krishan Yadav asserted that the administrative logjam in Indian boxing has contributed to the poor show here
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Rio de Janeiro: Having missed out a medal at the Rio Olympics following his loss in the quarter-finals, Vikas Krishan Yadav asserted that the administrative logjam in Indian boxing has contributed to the poor show here.
India’s Vikas Krishan (right) is dejected as Uzbekistan’s Bektemir Melikuziev is declared winner in Rio de Janeiro on Monday. Pic/AFP
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Vikas went down 0-3 to Bektemir Melikuziev of Uzbekistan in the quarter-finals of the men’s Middleweight (75kg) category yesterday which brought an end to the Indian challenge in the boxing ring at the ongoing Rio Games.
Shiva Thapa (56kg) and Manoj Kumar (64kg) had earlier crashed out of their respective weight categories.
“I thought that on August 15 I would present a medal to my people in India but I could not do it,” the 24-year-old Haryana pugilist lamented after his bout.
“Our boxing federation was banned so we could not go out to other countries to train with better boxers. But I am not blaming anyone. I lost because of me. I am sorry that I could not win,” he added.
Indian boxing has been suffering from administrative turmoil for the last four years as the International Boxing Federation (AIBA) suspended the erstwhile Indian Amateur Boxing Federation in 2012 following allegations of corruption and manipulations in elections.
A new body named Boxing India took over in 2014, but was soon dissolved by the AIBA following a revolt by several state bodies. Indian boxing is currently being run by an ad-hoc committee formed by the AIBA. The sorry state of affairs affected Indians in a major way as boxers were deprived of international exposure which affected their performance. The preparations for the Olympics were also severely affected.
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