SPORT LD BINDRA 2

"NRAI's attitude surprises me. I have never said anything
against NRAI. I am not saying that I don't want to be
accountable. You can monitor my results. It's certainly
frustrating and annoying to face such situations," Abhinav
said.

Rattled by Abhinav's threat to quit, the NRAI said it was
actually the sports ministry which had asked the Beijing
Olympics gold medallist to attend national trials for getting
his foreign training trips partly financed.
"We are being made scapegoats in the whole matter despite
the fact that we are not even in the picture. It's the sports
ministry which had asked Abhinav to attend trials before
sanctioning finances for his training trip. How can the NRAI
be blamed for it? We have never pressurised him to attend
trials," said NRAI Secretary Rajiv Bhatia.
"I have no clue why he is attacking the federation. May
be because it is easier to put the blame on us. Everybody
thinks that the federations are only harassing athletes but
nobody has questioned Bindra about his claims of training at
his own expense," he added.
The 27-year-old world champion, who clinched the historic
Olympic gold medal in the 10m air rifle, has been at
loggerheads with the game's administrators but had never
threatened to quit publicly. MORE PTI PM
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