S P O R T S

Jordan, Uruguay post victories
MARGAO, Jan 11 — A late goal by defender Faisal Suleiman helped Jordan beat Romania in the opening encounter of the group C league match of the Sahara millennium Soccer Cup here today.

Australia win by 74 runs
AUSTRALIA, Jan 11 — A different game but the same one-sided result. Australia, fresh from a 5-0 Test whitewash of the West Indies, beat the visitors by 74 runs in the opening limited-overs tri-series match at the Melbourne Cricket Ground today.

Hingis overcomes Serena, Seles loses
SYDNEY, Jan 11 — Switzerland’s Martina Hingis said she had nothing to fear from the Williams sisters after beating Serena 6-4, 7-5 at the Sydney International today to firm as favourite for the Australian Open.

India-Pak hockey series off
LAHORE, Jan 11 — There is a no possibility of Pakistan playing India in a hockey series in the near future.

Indians score upset victories
LINARES (Spain), Jan 11 — Indians had an excellent day scoring upset victories over their fancied opponents in the third round of the Linares International Open Chess tournament here.

Duleep Trophy
Fog mars opening day’s play
SAS NAGAR, Jan 11 — Early January weather played its part on the opening day of the four-day Duleep Trophy match as West Zone were 67 for one wicket in truncated day’s play against North Zone at the Punjab Cricket Association Stadium here today.

Soumyadeep shocks Baboor
CUTTACK, Jan 11 — Second seeded Soumyadeep Roy of Rajasthan and sixth seed Poulami Ghatak of Petroleum Sports Control Board were crowned with the men’s and women’s singles champion respectively, in nail-biting finals of the 62nd Senior National and Inter-State Table Tennis Championship at Jawaharlal Nehru Indoor Stadium here today.

PU eves lift b’minton title
CHANDIGARH, Jan 11 — Punjab University, Chandigarh, stolen the show by winning the women’s title while the men finished second in the North Zone Inter-Varsity Badminton Tournament here today. Delhi University men remained winners by winning 3-1. PU women surprised last year’s runners-up GND University 2-0.

Railways retain b’ball title
BANGALORE, Jan 11 — Stamping their authority in no uncertain terms, Indian Railways women won the senior title for the 13th time in a row trouncing young yet determined Kerala 91-75 at the 51st senior nationals here today.

India to host SAARC b’ball
BANGALORE, Jan 11  — India will host the first SAARC Basketball Championship for men in Guwahati from March 2 to 6. Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal have confirmed participation in the championship, Basketball Federation of India President B.K. Saha told reporters after BFI executive committee and general council meetings here today.

Vijay jumps into lead
NEW DELHI, Jan 11 — Vijay Kumar of India shot a three-under 69 to leapfrog from eighth position to the top of the leaderboard at the end of the penultimate round of the Rs 10 lakh Bhatiary Open 2001, the first ever professional golf tournament to be played in Bangladesh, at Chittagong today, according to information reaching here.

Antil to lead
CHANDIGARH, Jan 11 — The national inter-zonal champion in 5 km walk, Raveena Antil, will lead the 48-member Haryana team in the 16th National Junior Athletic Championship being held at Bangalore from January 17 to 20.

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Jordan, Uruguay post victories

MARGAO, Jan 11 (PTI) — A late goal by defender Faisal Suleiman helped Jordan beat Romania in the opening encounter of the group C league match of the Sahara millennium Soccer Cup here today.

Jordan who enjoyed territorial advantage especially in the second half after the missing chances in the second half, scored the all important goal in the 88th minute

Suleiman unleashed an angular drive that found the far end of the net beating Romanian keeper Anghel Eugen.

Both teams failed to enliven the proceedings as they played a slow pace defensive game.

Jordan, ranked 14th in Asia, fielded their national ‘A’ team comprising mostly of Al-Faisaly and Al-Wahid Club players.

The Jordanians relied mostly on long balls to pierce the rival defence. They made their first move in the 11th minute when Haitham Al-Shboul from the left centred to Chanem Hamaishah inside the box, the latter headed the ball to unmarked Jamal A Abu whose try was blocked by defender Bolfa Vasile.

KOCHI, (UNI): Favourites Uruguay beat Iceland 2-1 to begin their campaign in style, as the Kochi leg of the Sahara Cup Football Tournament finally got off to a bright start at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium here this evening.

All the three goals were netted in the first half of the match, marked by two different styles of football from Europe and the Latin America.

Alexandro Umpierref and Ricardo Varela scored for the winners while T Hinriksson reduced the margin for Iceland.

In the 26th minute of the first half, Alexandro put Uruguay ahead through a penalty, after Daniel Pereira was fouled in the penalty area by Iceland captain Gudmundsson, while trying to connect a pass from Ricardo Valrela.

Again in the 30th minute, Ricardo who was also instrumental in first goal, increased the lead to 2-0 by beautifully heading home a cross from Victor Abelenda.

Mounting a counter attack within the next two minutes in a concerted manner, Iceland won a free kick near the penalty area. Making no mistake, Hinriksson put his head right on the sliding free kick from his captain Gudmundsson, reducing the margin to 1-2.

With just five minutes into the game, Uruguay took control of the match and the ball remained inside rival half almost all throughout the game. Though fielding their second string, the Latin Americans rose to their billing in the tournament with their sheer domination.

While Uruguay earned won as many as seven corner kicks, the Europeans could earn just two.

However, coming from a climate of minus 10 degrees, the young Iceland side made some good moves in between. Their captain Gumudsson who topscored in the Norwegian league hardly rose to his reputation.

Uruguay made their intentions clear in the very fifth minute of the match when Juan Segales made a solo effort though finally cleared by rival goal keeper Gunnleifsson. 

Australia win by 74 runs

AUSTRALIA, Jan 11 (AP) — A different game but the same one-sided result. Australia, fresh from a 5-0 Test whitewash of the West Indies, beat the visitors by 74 runs in the opening limited-overs tri-series match at the Melbourne Cricket Ground today.

But the West Indian bowlers were unable to contain the Australian batsman as Ricky Ponting made 73 and combined with Mark Waugh (51) for a match-winning 111-run second-wicket partnership.

Scoreboard

Australia:

M.Waugh c Hinds b Williams 51

Gilchrist c McLean b Cuffy 7

Ponting c Powell b Cuffy 73

Bevan c Lara b Williams 17

S.Waugh c Nagamootoo b Samuels 29

Martyn run out 42

Symonds not out 38

Extras (lb-6 w-4) 10

Total (six wickets, 50 overs) 267

Fall of wickets: 1-7 2-118 3-144 4-174 5-193 6-267.

Bowling: Cuffy 9-1-45-2 (w-1), McLean 10-1-54-0 (w-2), Williams 8-0-39-2, Nagamootoo 10-0-50-0, Adams 3-0-19-0, Samuels 10-0-54-1 (w-1).

West Indies:

Campbell c Bevan b Bracken 4

Hinds c Ponting b McGrath 1

Lara c Gilchrist b Harvey 28

Samuels c&b Symonds 57

Powell c S.Waugh b Symonds 12

Jacobs c&b Symonds 24

Nagamootoo lbw Symonds 3

Adams not out 25

Williams not out 26

Extras (lb-9 w-4) 13

Total (seven wickets, 50 overs) 193.

Fall of wickets: 1-3 2-9 3-57 4-84 5-132 6-139 7-139.

Bowling: McGrath 6-2-7-1, Bracken 9-3-30-1, Harvey 9-0-55-1 (w-1), Martyn 6-1-19-0, Warne 10-1-38-0 (w-2), Symonds 10-1-35-4 (w-1).

Hingis overcomes Serena, Seles loses

SYDNEY, Jan 11 (Reuters) — Switzerland’s Martina Hingis said she had nothing to fear from the Williams sisters after beating Serena 6-4, 7-5 at the Sydney International today to firm as favourite for the Australian Open.

Grosjean beat Hingis’ Swiss Hopman Cup partner Roger Federer 7-5, 6-4 while Bjorkman defeated Germany’s Rainer Schuttler 6-3, 6-4.

Agassi in final

MELBOURNE (AFP): Andre Agassi fought back from the brink, three match points down, to reach the final of the Kooyong Tennis Classic here on Thursday.

The 30-year-old winner of all the four Grand Slams and six overall looked gone when he trailed Frenchman Nicolas Escude 3-6, 3-5, 0-40 and needing to hold his serve to force Escude to close the match out in fierce heat.

Not only did Agassi hold on, but he turned the tide and eventually wore down Escude for a gritty 3-6, 7-5, 6-1 victory and a place in Saturday’s final against either Yevgeny Kafelnikov or Juan Carlos Ferrero, who play their semifinal on Friday.

It was encouraging for the defending Australian Open champion just three days before the start of the year’s first Grand Slam tournament.

Ivanisevic fails

MELBOURNE: Goran Ivanisevic’s stormy tennis career plumbed new depths on Thursday when he lost his first-round qualifying match and missed out on reaching the Australian Open main draw.

The three-time Wimbledon finalist lost 5-7, 6-1, 1-6 to Czech Republic journeyman Petr Luxa in 84 minutes in stifling heat at Melbourne Park.

There were no histrionics, no screaming, no racquet smashing from Ivanisevic, hinting at a resignation at the ebbing away of his career rather than frustration.

As he left the outside court to return to the change rooms alone, Ivanisevic looked a disconsolate figure, stopping occasionally to look at scores in other qualifying matches, contemplating a career that looks well past its use-by date.

Pete Sampras, who beat Ivanisevic twice in Wimbledon finals, believed that the 29-year-old Croat should have been given a wild card into the Australian Open main draw. Ivanisevic’s ranking has slipped to 132.

India-Pak hockey series off

LAHORE, Jan 11 (UNI) — There is a no possibility of Pakistan playing India in a hockey series in the near future.

Ruling out chances of revival of the series between the two neighbouring countries, president of the Pakistan Hockey Federation (PHF) Lt-Gen Aziz Khan said: “There are no chances that my country will play India in such an event in the near future.”

The Dawn quoted the PHF chief as saying that “sports should be kept separate from politics,” Pakistan’s participation in the Gulf hockey series which also features India is not yet confirmed, he added.

General Aziz was speaking at the inauguration of a coaching camp here. He said the camp would help strengthen the base of technical officials besides promoting the game on new lines. “We badly need strong representation of our technical officials in the world body.”

Indians score upset victories

LINARES (Spain), Jan 11 (UNI) — Indians had an excellent day scoring upset victories over their fancied opponents in the third round of the Linares International Open Chess tournament here.

Results: IM R.B.Ramesh (2) b IM Arkady Shevelev (1), Rahul Shetty (2) b IM Alexander Wohl (1), Franco Alonzo (1) lost to Sandipan Chanda (2), IM Sergei Simoneko (1) lost to K.Visweswaran (2), Sriram Jha (1.5) drew IWM R.Aarthie (1.5), D.K.Sharma (2) b Munoz Cruz (1), C.S.Gokhale (1) b G.Barranco Martinez (0), M.Zulfugarli (3) b K.Sakaev (2), GM Vladmir Akopian (1.5) lost to GM V.Burmakin (2.5), GM R.Perez (2.5) b GM Etienne Bacrot (1.5), IM I.Herera (3) b GM A.Fominyh (2).

Will the National Games be postponed again?
By Abhijit Chatterjee
Tribune News Service

CHANDIGARH, Jan 11 — Will the 31st National Games be finally held in Punjab? This is a question doing the rounds in sporting circles as the March deadline of the games approach. Originally scheduled to be conducted in the state in 2000 as part of the tercentenary celebrations of the birth of the Khalsa, the Indian Olympic Association agreed to its rescheduling to March next but with barely two months to go for the games it is still doubtful whether the games will be held. As per the revised schedule the National Games are to be conducted from March 18 to March 31, 2001, with the competitions spread over Anandpur Sahib, Chandigarh, Jalandhar, Ludhiana and Patiala.

Neither the National Games Organising Committee, the Punjab Olympic Association or the Punjab Government have shown the urgency required to have the games on schedule. And just in case the games are again postponed it is quite possible that the games might not be held in Punjab at all this time around. There are indications that the Assembly elections in the state might be held ahead of schedule this year itself and if that happens then the National Games will have to take a backseat with a number of politicians of various political parties holding office not only in the Punjab Olympic Association but also in the National Games Organising Committee. Obviously, for these politicians contesting the elections will become the top priority and the National Games can then take a back seat.

And in case the games are not held in Punjab it would not be the first time that the games are not being held in the border state. It happened for the first time in 1989 when the 28th National Games — the third in the series after the revival of the National Games in 1985 — were allotted to Punjab. It was then to be held in November/December, 1989, but postponed to 1990 and later abandoned due to the prevailing law and order situation in the state. Ultimately, Maharashtra opted to hold the games in 1993 at Pune but this also had to be postponed due to the earthquake in Latur and finally held in February, 1994.

Postponement of the National Games is nothing new in the annals of Indian sports. Except for the first two games when they were held in Delhi in 1985 and in Kerala in 1987 as scheduled, the subsequent games have never held in the allotted year or month. For instance, the third National Games, as already discussed, were allotted to Punjab for 1989-90 but were actually held in Maharashtra in 1994. The next games were to be held in Karnataka in 1995 but actually held in 1997. Similarly, the Manipur games were to be staged in 1997 but were finally held in 1999 after postponement for a record number of five times. So it is no use blaming only Punjab for the delay in conducting the 2000 National Games.

A two-member team from the Indian Olympic Association consisting of Mr R.L. Anand, Chairman of IOA National Games Committee, Air Vice-Marshal S.M. Mayor (retd), Director, Asian and National Games Committee of the IOA, are scheduled to reach Chandigarh on Saturday (January 13) and examine the progress of infrastructure for the National Games. This team has visited Punjab in the past and had expressed satisfaction with the pace of the construction. And this time too they should find things in order.

According to reports available here, all infrastructure should be ready by the end of February and therefore holding the games in March should not be a problem. At Ludhiana all facilities at the Guru Nanak Stadium — venue of the opening and closing ceremonies — including relaying of the track should be completed by the middle of February. Ludhiana is to hold competitions in athletics, basketball, cycling, handball, hockey for women and volleyball.

In Jalandhar, where only renovation work is in progress, the work should be over by the end of this month. This city will witness competitions in badminton, equestrian, football, hockey for men, table tennis and wrestling. The same is the case with the facilities at Patiala and Anandpur Sahib. While Patiala will host competitions in aquatics, archery, boxing, gymnastics, kabaddi, kho-kho and weightlifting, the martial sports of fencing, judo and taekwando would be conducted at Anandpur Sahib.

But what is probably worrying the National Games Organising Committee is the attitude of the Chandigarh Administration. The competitions in canoeing, kayaking, golf, rowing, shooting and tennis are scheduled to be held in Chandigarh. While facilities at the Sukhna Lake, the Golf Club and the Sector 10 tennis stadium are up to the mark, the Chandigarh Administration said that it was not willing to upgrade the Patiali Rao shooting range without financial support from the organising committee. Soon after it was announced that a brand new shooting range with state-of-the-art facilities would be constructed at SAS Nagar specially for the National Games. Will the delay in the construction of the shooting range jeopardise the conduct of the whole National Games ?

(To be concluded)

Duleep Trophy
Fog mars opening day’s play
By Gopal Sharma
Tribune News Service

SAS NAGAR, Jan 11 — Early January weather played its part on the opening day of the four-day Duleep Trophy match as West Zone were 67 for one wicket in truncated day’s play against North Zone at the Punjab Cricket Association Stadium here today.

Mornings at this time of the year in the region have fog and for the past couple of days the weather has been like that. Keeping this in view a delayed start to the play was expected. But the fog this morning was so dense that at the time when the play was scheduled to start visibility was poor and the wicket was hardly visible even from the boundary area. And with no trace of any sunshine substantial loss of time was a foregone conclusion.

The thick blanket of the fog continued to hang over the ground for the larger part of the day and by the time the weather cleared and the umpires decided to start the proceedings for the day it was almost tea time. The tea interval was advanced by 15 minutes as the play began at quarter to three.

North skipper Vikram Rathore called correctly and gave a chance to his seam bowlers to have a ‘go’ at the rival batsmen. In whatever time was left West Zone openers Wasim Jaffer and Conner Williams played with caution and determination and saw off the initial burst from medium pacers — Delhi’s left-armer Aashish Nehra and Punjab’s Gagandeep Singh — without any damage. Both the seamers in fact, failed to make much impression on the batsmen who largely looked untroubled as the first hour produced 40 runs without the loss of any wicket.

Surinder Singh, left-arm medium pacer introduced into the attack in place of Nehra from the far end, was in the thick of action immediately inducing a thick edge from the blade of Jaffer in the very first over which went abegging. The Jammu and Kashmir pacer, who has been among the wickets in the season’s Ranji Trophy matches played earlier and the lone player to represent the state, struck in the next trapping Williams who had played well for his 21 runs lbw. Jaffer, who by this time looked composed, was troubled by Surinder’s sharply lifting deliveries.

Rathore shuffled his medium pacers in an effort to gain further breakthrough but former India one-day player Hrishikesh Kanitkar, who timed the ball well and Jaffer saw off the day’s play without any more damage. Jaffer, after the fall of first wicket, was just content to defend and preserve his wicket. Towards the fag end of the day Kanitkar survived an anxious moment as the entire North team went up in appeal in what they thought Dinesh Mongia had taken the catch off Reetinder Sodhi. Kanitkar firmly stood his ground as the umpire at the pavilion end after consulting the square leg umpire ruled in the batsman’s favour.

With the weather showing no signs of any improvement the match is unlikely to start on schedule tomorrow.

Scoreboard

Wasim Jaffer not out 24, Conner Williams lbw Surinder 21, Hrishikesh Kanitkar not out 17. Extras (3nb, 2lb): 5. Total: (for one wicket in 30 overs) 67. Fall of wicket: 1-40. Bowling : Aashish Nehra 8-0-25-0, Gagandeep Singh 9-3-22-0, Surinder Singh 8-3-16-1, Reetinder Sodhi 4-3-1-0, Sarandeep Singh 1-0-1-0.

Soumyadeep shocks Baboor

CUTTACK, Jan 11 (UNI) — Second seeded Soumyadeep Roy of Rajasthan and sixth seed Poulami Ghatak of Petroleum Sports Control Board were crowned with the men’s and women’s singles champion respectively, in nail-biting finals of the 62nd Senior National and Inter-State Table Tennis Championship at Jawaharlal Nehru Indoor Stadium here today.

Poulami, who first won the women’s singles title in 1998 defeating Mouma Das, said she put her 100 per cent efforts to grab the next three games with 21-15, 21-12 and 21-18 scores.

PU eves lift b’minton title
By Our Sports Reporter

CHANDIGARH, Jan 11 — Punjab University, Chandigarh, stolen the show by winning the women’s title while the men finished second in the North Zone Inter-Varsity Badminton Tournament here today. Delhi University men remained winners by winning 3-1. PU women surprised last year’s runners-up GND University 2-0.

In the final played between Panjab University and GND University, Nazma played a valiant first singles when she outplayed Saloni Kundra at 11-2, 11-5. In doubles, Nazma and H. Sarda Devi outplayed Saloni Kundra and Sumit Kalra in a tough encounter at 15-11, 17-14.

In the women’s tie for the third place, Delhi University upset defending champions Punjabi University, Patiala, 2-0. Gayatri played the first singles and got the better of Shehnaz 11-4, 11-1 while Gayatri and Renu defeated Shehnaz and Kashmir Kaur 15-5, 17-16.

Meanwhile, four teams — Panjab University, GND University, Amritsar, Delhi University and Punjabi University have qualified for the All India Inter Zonal Inter-Varsity Tournament beginning on January 13 here.

In the men’s final, Delhi University had to exert hard to overcome hosts Panjab University at 3-1. Hemant Duggal of DU won his first singles by thrashing Varun Sharma at 15-1, 15-5. But the spirited Deepak Sidhu of Panjab University equalised by winning his singles at 15-13, 11-15, 3-15. The captain of Panjab University, Rajnikant Prajapati, got his right hand injured yesterday, as thus he could not concentrate in the doubles. Panjab University were represented by Rajnikant and Varun Sharma and they lost to Satvender and Sukhvinder 8-15, 16-17. In the third singles, Manmeet downed Touseef Ahmed who could not display his form today and won at 15-1, 15-6.

In the match for the third place, CCS University, Meerut, had a difficult time against MJP Rohilkhand University, Bareilly, 3-2. Anuj of Meerut lost to Vivek Sharma at 15-9, 4-15, 14-17, followed by second singles when Sanjay defeated DB Thapa of Bareilly at 15-1, 15-3. At 1-1, the Meerut pair again lost the doubles tie when Amit and Sanjay went down fighting to DB Thapa and Vivek Saxena at 7-15, 2-15.

The third singles went in favour of the Meerut player Amit who outscored Deepak at 15-5, 15-6. In the men’s section four teams who have qualified for the inter-zonal tournament are Delhi University, Panjab University, CCSU Meerut and MJP Rohilkhand, Bareilly.

Surprisingly, the final match of North Zone did not have any formal closing function and no chief guest was invited. The university authorities seemed little bothered with not more than 100 persons, including players, witnessing the finals.

Railways retain b’ball title

BANGALORE, Jan 11 (UNI) — Stamping their authority in no uncertain terms, Indian Railways women won the senior title for the 13th time in a row trouncing young yet determined Kerala 91-75 at the 51st senior nationals here today.

I.V. Cherian did the bulk of the scoring for the winners, accounting for 44 points with Meenalata and Arnika R. Gujar chipping in with 18 and 10 points, respectively. For Kerala Sandhya P.V. scored 27 points with Rigi and Binu Cherian scoring 12 and 10 points, respectively.

India to host SAARC b’ball

BANGALORE, Jan 11 (PTI) — India will host the first SAARC Basketball Championship for men in Guwahati from March 2 to 6.

Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal have confirmed participation in the championship, Basketball Federation of India President B.K. Saha told reporters after BFI executive committee and general council meetings here today.

He said Maldives and Bhutan were expected to take part but Pakistan, the other member of the regional forum, had expressed its inability to participate.

Vijay jumps into lead
From Our Sports Reporter

NEW DELHI, Jan 11 — Vijay Kumar of India shot a three-under 69 to leapfrog from eighth position to the top of the leaderboard at the end of the penultimate round of the Rs 10 lakh Bhatiary Open 2001, the first ever professional golf tournament to be played in Bangladesh, at Chittagong today, according to information reaching here.

Vijay Kumar, the Order of Merit winner on the Wills Sport Golf Tour for the past three seasons, aggregated level-par 216 and enjoyed a one-stroke advantage over Digvijay Singh. Rafiq Ali was third at two-over 218, while Bangladesh’s No 1 golfer, Chand Mian, was tied fourth at three-over 219 with India’s No 1 player in 1999-2000, Mukesh Kumar. Mohammed Norul Islam Ghani, the other Bangladeshi golfer in the leaderboard, shot a 76 and was sixth at four-over 220.

Digvijay Singh also produced a mixed bag as he compensated for his poor start with three delightful birdies on the trot at the start of the back nine. However, a double bogey on the 16th, saw him close at his second consecutive 73, which was enough to place him in the final group, along with Rafiq Ali. The Calcuttan returned a 74 after two successive 72s. 

Antil to lead
Tribune News Service

CHANDIGARH, Jan 11 — The national inter-zonal champion in 5 km walk, Raveena Antil, will lead the 48-member Haryana team in the 16th National Junior Athletic Championship being held at Bangalore from January 17 to 20.

Giving this information today, the president of Haryana Amateur Athletics Association, Mr Abhay Singh Chautala, said the gold medal winners would be honoured by the association.

The contingent:

Boys under-20: Tasvir, Pawan, Om naren, Vijay, Vijay, Tajesh, Jasmair, Jasdev, and Rajesh. Boys under-18: Rajesh, Sanjay, Balvinder, Anny, Sanjay, Anil, Suresh, Virender Singh and Dalbir. Boys under-16: Surender Singh, Satish, Ramesh, Shri Kant, Narender, Mukesh, Baljit, Samunder, Ramniwas, Ravinder, Bharat Singh, Satpal, Sandeep, Gurkeerat and Vinod.

Girls under-20: Mukesh, Simarpal, gurpreet kaur, Sunil Joon, Sangita, Anoop, Aplesh, Idubala, Priyanka, Sonu, Reena Joon and Sangeeta.

REGIONAL SPORTS BRIEFS

HOA meeting on January 14
Tribune News Service

CHANDIGARH, Jan 11 — The general body meeting of the Haryana Olympic Association will be held on January 14 at 2.30 p.m. at Olympic Bhawan, Sector-3, Panchkula.

This was stated here today by Mr M.S. Malik, general secretary, HOA and Director General of Haryana police. Mr Malik, said the Haryana Olympic Association would review the working of various sports associations. The HOA will decide on action to be taken against such sports associations which are not making efforts to promote their disciplines. The HOA will also provide financial assistance to sports associations which are performing well. It will also decide to formulate new guidelines for associations to promote their disciplines. The HOA will also consider cases of affiliation of certain associations.

The Haryana contingent for the National Games will also be finalised at the meeting.