Union Sports minister Mansukh Mandaviya, held a significant meeting with Sebastian Coe, President of World Athletics and Member of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), in New Delhi on Monday.
“I thought someone would take up the lead but no one did. I too slowed down and was caught in the bunch and didn’t know how to get out. Even on the last lap I was hopeful of a medal,” said India's best track medal hope Sable in the mixed zone after the race.
In his first outdoor meet of the season, high jumper Tejaswin Shankar won the event at the Shocker Spring Invitational athletics competition in Wichita, Kansas.
The lengthy 10-year ban slapped on Kenyan marathoner Titus Ekiru by the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) has exposed another dimension to the doping crisis that has plagued the country's athletics for almost a decade.
4x400 relay team also bagged yellow medal as medal rush continued for India
According to a report in the Daily Mail on Tuesday, the 39-year-old, who won both the 5,000m and 10,000m events at the 2012 London Olympics and the Rio Games, was trafficked into the UK from war-torn Somalia under the name of another child after his father was killed in his home country.
Olympian Avinash Sable clocked 13 minutes 25.65 seconds at the Sound Running Track Meet in San Jun Capistrano, the USA on Friday evening to break the long-standing Indian record of 13:29.70 set by Bahadur Prasad in 1992, according to information reaching here on Saturday.
World Athletics said its investigators in the Belarus case "will conduct the procedure, with the full collaboration and support of the IOC."
Neeraj's last major competition, prior to being deemed unfit because of his elbow injury, was the 2018 Jakarta Asian Games.
The world-renowned athlete reportedly showed black and white photos of his achievements to the minister. He, moreover, showed his medals to the minister who was present there along with Chandigarh BJP President Sanjay Tandon.
