The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has asked Randhir Singh to continue as the acting president of Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) in view of its investigation into the continental body’s elections held in Bangkok earlier this month.
The IOC had warned former OCA president Sheikh Ahmad Al-Fahad Al-Sabah, who was convicted of forgery in a political case relating to his country Kuwait by a Geneva court in September 2021 and stepped down from the OCA post, against travelling to Bangkok in order to prevent his involvement in the elections.
However, Sheikh Ahmad visited the Thailand capital and eventually his younger brother Sheikh Talal Fahad Al-Sabah was elected the OCA president prompting the IOC to launch an inquiry into the elections.