PT Usha will become the boss of Indian Olympics? Veteran athlete files nomination for IOA election

The Indian Olympic Association (Indian Olympic Association) elections are scheduled to be held on December 10 next month, for which the nomination process has already started on Friday.

Former veterans are also making inroads into the top ranks of the Indian Sports Federation. After cricket, football and hockey, now it’s the turn of the Indian Olympic Association (IOA), one of the country’s greatest athletes, Badshah Shumar PT Usha, is now going to contest for the post of IOA president. (Getty Images)

P.T. Usha, popularly known as Udanpari, shocked everyone by announcing to file her nomination for the IOA president election on Saturday, November 26. The IOA elections will be held on December 10 after the controversy that has been going on for the past few months.

The former Olympian champion, who won the gold medal in the 400m race at the Asian Games, made the announcement in a tweet. 58-year-old PT Usha wrote in support of her fellow players and national federations that she is “very proud to accept and fill the nomination for the post of IO President”.

The deadline for nominations for the election is Sunday, November 27. No one else has filed since the nomination process began on Friday. PT Usha is also one of the eight veteran players elected to the IOA’s Athletes Commission.

Usha, who finished fourth in the 1984 Olympics, is considered a candidate by the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party, which nominated her as a member of the Rajya Sabha in July. If he succeeds, he will be the first player since Maharaja Yadavinder Singh to become the IOA president. Yadvinder Singh played a Test match in 1934, who was the president between 1938 and 1960. (PTI)

PT Usha won 11 medals including 4 gold medals at the Asian Games between 1982 and 1994. She lost the bronze medal in the 400 meters final at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics to Romania’s Cristina Cozocaru by one second. (Getty Images)