Missing An Outing Is Wrong: Rowing President Balaji On Asian Games Controversy – EXCLUSIVE

Rowing Federation of India president Balaji Maradapa has addressed the controversy surrounding the Asian Games. The Indian rowing team won a bronze medal at the Asiad. India had clinched five medals in the 2023 Asian Games. Following India’s below-par performance, Balaji highlighted the double scull team gave their personal best, but he didn’t know about the interneal issues in the team. “The double scull had done a personal best. Timings-wise, they were, they were good. But unfortunately, I don’t know, what is the internal issue between them, what happened, the coach was very clear, and you know that the whole event was truncated. Our coach Anthony Patterson, who has gone to nine Olympics, wanted to have fresh legs. When I say fresh legs, our guys not doubling, whereas Uzbek, Indonesia, a lot of teams were doubling. So even our double scull went in fresh,” Balaji told Sports Now.