N. Ramachandran, who held the post of president of the World Squash Federation (WSF), still remembers the time when he attended the IOC session in Singapore in 2005 as “a young vice-president of WSF”.
“The IOC session had Sussie Simcock, the then president of WSF, and the legendary Jahangir Khan in attendance. But in those days, we required a two-thirds majority among the IOC members for a sport to get in Olympics. Unfortunately, we didn’t get that,” he said.
The 74-year-old said in his two terms as WSF president (2008 & ‘12) , he did his best to get squash into the Olympics, but in vain. “I would like to thank US Squash and Los Angeles Olympic Committee and the World Squash Federation for recommending squash and thrilled to see squash being part of LA 2028. It has been my dream to have squash in Olympics and I am so happy and proud of the part I’ve played,” he said.
