IOA
Secretary
General
Rajeev
Mehta
said
the
Olympic
body
will
write
a
letter
to
the
Commonwealth
Games
Federation
(CGF)
in
a
day
or
two
to
protest
against
the
decision.
“It
is
a
grave
injustice
to
India,
leaving
out
shooting,
wrestling
and
archery.
Shooting
and
wrestling
are
our
major
sports
in
CWG.
We
protest
against
the
decision
and
will
write
a
letter
to
the
CGF
in
a
day
or
two,”
Mehta
told
PTI.
“Will
discuss
the
matter
with
the
IOA
president
and
then
with
the
sports
ministry
regarding
the
future
course
of
action.”
Without
shooting
and
wrestling,
India’s
CWG
medal
tally
is
likely
to
be
reduced
drastically.
Shooting
has
been
India’s
strongest
sport
in
the
Commonwealth
Games
with
135
medals
(63
gold,
44
silver
and
28
bronze)
till
now.
Wrestling
is
in
the
third
spot
with
102
(43
gold,
37
silver
and
22
bronze)
medals.
In
the
last
CWG
in
Gold
Coast
(Australia)
in
2018,
shooting
and
wrestling
had
together
accounted
for
28
medals
out
of
the
country’s
total
tally
of
66.
Shooting
gave
16
medals
(7
gold,
4
silver
and
5
bronze)
while
wrestling
contributed
12
(5
gold,
3
silver
and
4
bronze).
On
Tuesday,
Victoria
was
announced
as
the
host
of
the
2026
Commonwealth
Games
with
the
Australian
state’s
regional
centres
organising
the
majority
of
events
in
a
break
from
the
traditional
single
host
city
model.
An
initial
list
of
16
sports,
including
T20
cricket,
have
been
put
forward
for
the
Games,
with
further
sports
to
be
added
later
this
year.
If
the
Australian
organisers
want
to
exclude
shooting,
wrestling
and
archery
from
the
Games,
it
will
be
difficult
to
reverse
such
a
decision
as
the
CGF
General
Assembly
had
approved
in
October
last
year
a
new
‘strategic
roadmap’ under
which
athletics
and
swimming
will
be
the
only
compulsory
sports
from
the
2026
edition.
The
host
cities
have
been
given
greater
freedom
to
include
disciplines
of
their
choice
from
a
proposed
core
list
of
22
sports.
The
core
list
includes
shooting,
wrestling
and
archery,
besides
T20
cricket,
beach
volleyball
and
3×3
basketball.
In
2019,
the
IOA
had
threatened
to
boycott
the
2022
Birmingham
Commonwealth
Games
to
be
held
from
July
28
to
August
8
this
year
after
shooting’s
exclusion
from
the
programme.
The
threat
was
withdrawn
after
the
CGF
agreed
to
stage
a
separate
Commonwealth
Shooting
Championship
(as
well
as
Commonwealth
Archery
Championship)
in
India
with
the
medals
from
the
event
to
be
counted
in
the
final
standings
of
the
Birmingham
Games.
The
shooting
(as
well
as
archery)
championship
was
to
be
held
in
Chandigarh
in
January
this
year
but
was
cancelled
due
to
the
“uncertainty”
posed
by
the
COVID-19
pandemic.
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