The suspension and factionalism of the National Federation continued to dominate in the year 2019 after India's well-known archers performed brilliantly in some competitions and now that the Tokyo Olympics have a few months left, the situation is deteriorating rather than improving. Indian archery suffered a severe blow in August when the Archery Association of India (AAI) was suspended by World Archery. The world body took this decision because of parallel elections in Delhi and Chandigarh by the two groups because it is against its guidelines.

According to media reports, this suspension went unnoticed for the archers who performed brilliantly by winning one gold, two silver and four bronze medals at the Bangkok Asian Championships and were forced to participate as neutral archers under the flag of World Archery. Was lying Indians proved themselves to be the second strongest competitors in Asia after Korea. Abhishek Verma and Jyoti Surekha had prevented Korea from making a clean sweep by winning the compound mixed doubles gold, but neither played the national anthem nor the tricolor when they reached the podium and addressed these players as 'Olympic athletes' Must be done.

At the same time, when he talked to Verma about this, he said after the victory, 'It was a very bad feeling and even our competitors were surprised by it. We can not do anything. I request everyone to leave this factionalism because we archers have to bear the brunt of it. In fact, Indians were allowed to play in Bangkok only because it was the continental Olympic qualifier in which Deepika Kumari won the quota for the Tokyo Olympics. Due to suspension, India also did not get admission in South Asian Games in Nepal, taking advantage of which Bangladesh won all ten gold medals at stake.

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