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Kalmadi, Hooper controversy should have been averted: Gill |
Union Sports Minister
M S Gill on Monday said that the tiff between the Delhi Commonwealth Games Organising
Committee chairman Suresh Kalmadi and Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF) CEO
Mike Hooper should have been averted. “Whatever has happened is not right and
shouldn't have happened. I just want to say that on October 29, I am going to
London for the Queen's Baton Relay, where I will meet Fennell. Kalmadi and I will
talk to them and try to resolve the matter. I will listen to both sides,” Gill
said. Kalmadi and Hooper were recently involved in a war of words, where Kalmadi
had demanded that the CGF call back Hooper from Delhi , and had described Hooper’s
two-year stint with the Organising Committee as useless and an impediment. On
the other hand, Hooper had refuted the charges, saying they were “unwanted, unfair
and unjust.” Gill further said that despite the controversy both committees will
work together to make the 2010 Commonwealth Games a successful one. “We are confident
of holding a successful Games. Fennell has raised some questions about the functioning
and management of this organizing committee. Those issues have been addressed
and we have made certain changes in the management. We have done the required
work,” he added. |
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