Politicians dominate Assam sports bodies: Ex-SAI official

Rao recalled that it was Malhotra who played a spoilsport and dented Limba's chance of achieving something worthwhile at the 1992 Olympics Games when he sacked the archer's coach a fortnight before the mega event in Barcelona.

"The Special Area Games scheme unearthed Limba Ram in the late 1980s and he was shaping up nicely and was poised to do well in the Barcelona Games before V K Malhotra sacked his coach just 15 days before the event," he said.

Welcoming the media glare on alleged corruption in the organisation of the CWG, Rao said one of the objectives of Clean Sports India - headed by former India hockey captain Pargat Singh - was for sports persons to take over sports administration at all levels, starting from the grassroots.

"I cite the example of (former national sprint champion and member of Clean Sports India) Ashwini Nachappa, who has taken over as the President of the Bangalore district athletics body. In a few years' time she would be in a good position to take control of the state body," he said.

"It's going to be a long haul for us but we have to make a beginning. Recently, we had an awareness run at Bangalore and our organisation that started with ten persons got swelled by 100 more sports persons."

Former Olympian and Asian Games 4 x 400m relay gold medallist Vandana Rao, treasurer of Clean Sports India, said a similar run to bring about awareness in Olympic sports would be held in Mumbai on August 29.