I was not unwell, coach told me not to take part: khushbir

Axed from the Indian team for the Asian Championships for pulling out of the Nationals here, top woman 20km race walker Khushbir Kaur today said that she had to suffer for no fault of hers

as it was her coach Alexander Artsybashev who told her not to take part in the event. Axed from the Indian team for the Asian Championships for pulling out of the Nationals here, top woman

20km race walker Khushbir Kaur today said that she had to suffer for no fault of hers as it was her coach Alexander Artsybashev who told her not to take part in the event. Khushbir and top

men's 20km race walker Manish Singh Rawat were axed from the Indian team for the Asian Race Walking Championships to be held on March 20 in Nomi, Japan, after they pulled out of the

National Championships here yesterday at the last minute. Both Khushbir and Rawat's names were there in the starting list but they chose not to take part in the event, which enraged the

Athletics Federation of India bosses who had directed all the athletes to take part in the championships. Russian-born Alexander, who is set to be shown the door after the Asian

Championships, yesterday told reporters that both Khushbir and Rawat were not well and they were having fever, so they had to skip the National Championships. But contrary to

Alexander's claim, both Khushbir and Rawat said that they were fit but gave different reasons why they pulled out of the Nationals without informing the AFI. "It is not my duty to

inform the AFI. The coach is there for it. We have been training under a coach and please tell me whether I should listen to my coach (Alexander) or to AFI. He (Alexander) told me not to

take part in the National Championships," Khushbir told (This article has not been edited by DNA's editorial team and is auto-generated from an agency feed.)