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Organisers' apathy leaves boxers in a spot

Last Updated 16 May 2009, 16:09 IST

The 10-member team is unlikely to be back in the country until Tuesday. The Indian team, which finished with a gold, a silver and a couple of bronze medals, was scheduled to board the flight for India on Saturday but was sent back from the airport after it came out that mandatory registration process hadn’t been carried out. “Anyone staying in Kazakhstan for more than five days is required to be registered, which is the responsibility of the local organisers but they didn’t. It is completely the fault of local Kazakh officials,” Jitender said from Almaty.

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(Published 16 May 2009, 16:09 IST)

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