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i am speechless for your nasty mind! it is pointless to complain a lot while you don't have enough capability to compete in the asian games!
This is for you Chinautum!!!
Even before the equestrian events could begin in the ongoing 16th Asian Games in Guangzhou, India, which had a sure chance of winning at least two medals, has been dealt a knockout blow.
China has refused to allow entry to five of the eight Indian horses equestrian is a rider-horse event saying the animals have failed mandatory disease checks. Incidentally, Chinese riders stand to gain the most if India is ousted from the field. The equestrian events begin tomorrow.
The disease for which the Indian horses did not have clearances Venezuelan Equine Encephalomyelitis (VEE) is prevalent in the US and some Western countries, and has never been reported in India, or even in Asia.
The Equestrian Federation of India (EFI) has protested the Chinese decision.
And Dr Graeme Cooke, Director, Veterinary Division, Federation of Equestrian Internationalis (FEI) the international governing body for all Olympic equestrian disciplines and Dr Alf-Eckbert Fuessel of the Directorate General for Health and Consumers (DG SANCO) of the European Union have written to the Games organisers, saying that their decision to bar Indian horses is flawed.
In an email to the EFI and Asian Games officials, Dr Fuessel, who is also an authority on equestrian diseases, has written that VEE has never been described in South-East Asia. In another email, he has said, For me personally it is a big tragedy that at the 16th Asian Games in China, in the preparation of which indeed the world has invested much more than in any previous Asian Games, one of the great Asian nations (India) cannot participate for a reason that is clearly not a veterinary reason.
In a strongly-worded email, Dr Cooke has protested the Chinese decision and threatened to take it up with the World Organisation for Animal Health, or OIE, the apex intergovernmental organisation responsible for improving animal health worldwide.
...Therefore the FEI formally protests most strongly at the existing General Administration for Quality, Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine (AQSIQ), China, decision and will seek to make a formal complaint to the OIE if this situation is not rectified in a reasonable manner as per international norms, Dr Cooke has written.
Two AQSIQ experts had earlier given a signed certificate saying the Indian horses were healthy and fit to travel to China. However, the Chinese authorities issued a special protocol on October 11, asking India to to test the horses for 18 diseases, including six diseases that have never been reported in India.
Major J S Ahluwalia, team captain and vice president (development), EFI, described the Chinese decision as politics at its cheapest.
The Chinese have unfairly denied us the opportunity to compete. This is so unjust and unfair to the young riders who have practised day and night for the last four years for the Games, Maj. Ahluwalia told The Sunday Express.
Sources said the Union Ministry of External Affairs was also involved in the negotiations with the Games authorities through Indias Ambassador to China.
For disease never seen in India, China denies Indian horses entry to Asiad