 | News |  |
HOME | BOLLYWOOD | MOVIES | CRICKET | DIWALI | E-CARDS | COOKING | BABY NAMES | JOKES | FESTIVALS | MOBILES | CARS & BIKES | ||
InDepth headlines national business sports cricket regional entertainment technology world travel autos health | in-depth coverage > Olympic Games 2004 > Weightlifting scandal takes coaches' scalp 23.02 IST 24th Aug 2004 By IndiaExpress Bureau The government today fired weightlifting coaches Pal Singh Sandhu and Leonid Taranenko in the wake of an Olympic doping scandal with the lifting federation chief H S Dora backing the decision. Sports Minister Sunil Dutt said after the sacking of the two coaches, "it (decision) is not sudden. We took a week to decide." Justifying the action, Dutt said, "they have been appointed by the ministry... when I appoint somebody, when I engage the services of somebody and if they don't care for our sentiments, I think those people are not required." Coming down heavily on the two coaches, Dutt said that they failed to inform the government of the doping incident. "A wrong thing has happened. It was their (coaches’) duty to inform the ministry that such a thing has happened here and this is the truth. They never informed us," Dutt said. An official release, announcing the sack order, said the government had lost confidence in the two coaches in the wake of the scandal. However, Pal Singh Sandhu, pleaded innocence in Athens. "The girls used to go to their personal advisors during the Games. It's the advisors who have done this and tarnished the image of the coaches," he said. "The government should have waited till we returned to India. I had no role to play," he said. in-depth coverage > Olympic Games 2004 > |
Marigold (Review) The Last Legion (Slideshow) Chak De India (Review) Ram Gopal Varma Ki Aag (Slideshow) Sachin Tendulkar makes Atherton eat his words Sachin Tendulkar joins 11,000 Test run club Sachin Tendulkar becomes third highest run-getter Sachin Tendulkar stills dreams about century at Lord's Tendulkar to go in Tests with confident frame of mind I am nowhere near the final stop yet: Sachin Tendulkar Sachin Tendulkar closes in on Waugh’s Test aggregate Aviva Life signs Sachin Tendulkar as brand ambassador I am unfazed by criticism: Tendulkar Sachin Tendulkar becomes first player to score 15,000 ODI runs Sachin's views on keeping Indian cricket at pace with times Tendulkar back into top twenty Entertainment Marigold : Movie Review When Salman and Ali Larter went Jet Skiing Ayesha Takia and Akshay Kumar in a supernatural thriller Sushmita Sen dating Dia Mirza's ex 'The Last Lear' selected for Toronto Film Festival |
