NEW DELHI: "Sparring, using of the ring/mat and sharing of equipment is not allowed for contact sports such as wrestling and boxing." Quoting directly from Sports Authority of India's much-awaited Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) to restart training, which was released Thursday.
That, for one, rules out any "pistols at dawn" kind of face-off between the feuding top brass of the Indian Olympic Association - IOA president Narinder Batra and secretary general Rajeev Mehta.