NEW DELHI: Gymnast Dipa Karmakar used the occasion of Independence Day to vent her ire on the Sports Authority of India (SAI) over her exclusion from the Indian gymnastics contingent for the Hangzhou Asian Games, despite topping the selection trials held in Bhubaneswar on July 11 and 12.
In a series of tweets on Tuesday, Dipa – who was part of the long list of Indian athletes sent to the organisers of the Asian Games before the July 15 deadline but was later dropped for not fulfilling the sports ministry’s criteria – wrote that her non-selection left her demotivated and discouraged with the authorities maintaining a “deafening silence”.
