ABA looking to book errant boxer and official
View(s):Adding more woes to the ongoing administrative debacles in the 18th Asian Games being held in Jakarta, Indonesia, Amateur Boxing Association of Sri Lanka (ABA) is on the verge of taking disciplinary action on two individuals.
The two individuals — a banned foreign coach and a former ace pugilist, who have bypassed the ABA norms and are currently at the Asian Games it is said.
Earlier the National Selection Committee had approved the names of Dian Gomes, Harsha Kumara and Amila Tissera as the coaches accompanying the six boxers but an outside hand, connected to the National Olympic Committee of Sri Lanka (NOC) has given assistance to the two individuals in obtaining passage to Indonesia.
The two–Ukrainian Vannikov Volodymyr, and Manju Wanniarachchi are now in Indonesia while the three — Gomes, Kumara and Tissera have not made the tour according to ABA sources. According to information the ABA had taken a decision to send Harsha Kumara, but mysteriously he has been forced by a high hand individual connected to a leading boxing club in the country, who had told the coach to withdraw from the tour citing medical reasons.
Wanniarachchi, meanwhile had attempted to enter ‘field of play’ in Indonesia on Friday without a valid accreditation and the event officials have removed him from the location, according to sources in Indonesia.
The reason behind the strange inclusion of the two individuals is being carried out by the said individual of the leading boxing club, who is attempting to create a rift between his club and the ABA, with the influence of the NOC, according to sources.