CWG 2022: To fulfill Lovlina's wish, team doctor's accreditation cancelled and head coach moved to hotel

To accommodate Lovlina's unjust demand to allow her personal coach, Sandhya Gurung, to stay with her at the Games Village, an accredited official team doctor's village card was cancelled, the women's team's head coach was moved to a far-away hotel accommodating the 'extra team officials' (ETO) with no full-time access to his boxers and an assistant coach and a physio were forced to share a common room. Not only this, for the eight member men's boxing team, just one coach - head coach Narendra Rana - and physio Subhash Rajpat Pal will be available round-the-clock at the village.

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Olympic bronze medallist Lovlina Borgohain can heave a sigh of relief, and so can the Indian Olympic Association (IOA) and its officials at the chef-de-mission's office in Birmingham.

In contrast, for the four-member women's team, it will have the services of two coaches from the Northeast - Pranamika Borah and Gurung - and physio Reena Singh at the village. Lovlina, who hails from Assam, had demanded that Gurung be granted the Games accreditation and a room to personally train her for the CWG. To ensure that her demands were met, Lovlina had angrily tweeted about the 'mental harassment' she was being subjected to because of the removal of her coaches from the contingent, one of them being Gurung, who only trains the Tokyo Olympics bronze winner. The politicians and sports administrators, too, duly obliged and worked overtime to fulfill Lovlina's wish within hours of her tweet. However, in the process, it's the overall well-being, conditioning and CWG campaign of the boxers, which have been compromised.

For the team of 12, there was only one medical expert,