IOA: Chandigarh medals won’t count for CWG
Vinayak Padmadeo
Tribune News Service
New Delhi, May 29
The Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF) has reportedly communicated to the Indian Olympic Association (IOA) that the medals won at next year’s Commonwealth Shooting and Archery Championships will not be added to the main tally of the 2022 Birmingham Commonwealth Games.
After shooting and archery were excluded from the CWG programme, the Commonwealth Shooting and Archery Championships was decided to be held in Chandigarh, with claims that medals won in this event would be added to the CWG tally. In March 2020, The Tribune had reported that the medals would not be added.
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