In the last few years, the performance of Indian players in different world level sports has improved and they are also getting success in different competitions. Despite this, many players still have to struggle, due to which there is financial crisis and an even bigger problem is the sports associations, whose officials harass instead of helping on such occasions. The latest case is Indian ski athlete Vikas Rana, who has accused the Indian Skiing Association of harassing and not helping. He has leveled these allegations against Shiva Keshavan, chairman of the adhoc committee running the association, who has been India's famous Winter Olympian. He has made these allegations in a letter written to Indian Olympic Association President PT Usha.
According to media reports, Vikas Rana, who belongs to a farmer family of Haryana, alleges that the committee headed by Keshavan is stopping him from playing in tournaments held abroad. Vikas has sent a 5 page letter to PT Usha, in which he has made this allegation. Apart from this, he has also accused the committee of disrupting the training and creating obstacles in playing in the tournaments continuously. Vikas had won the gold medal in the Cross Country Skiing Championship held in Germany in January 2024 and brought glory to the country. Vikas, a resident of Sukhain Khurd village of Haryana, told that even in the tournament played in Germany, the ad-hoc committee was stopping her from playing but with the help of Haryana Skiing Association, she was successful in participating in it and winning gold.
Like every player, Vikas also needs financial help for training but for the last one year this committee is not helping him in this also. Not only this, Vikas also alleges that this committee is harming his efforts for a job in the Haryana government. He said that apart from this, he was also supposed to go to an event this year but the committee did not send his name and then Keshavan refused to send him. Not only this, Vikas has also warned in her letter that given the circumstances she is facing, she will either leave the game or stop living.
She told that since July this year, she had been trying to get a job so that she could meet her financial needs, but the ad-hoc committee was creating obstacles in getting the necessary documents for this. Vikas's allegations did not stop here, but he has also said that the adhoc committee is harassing him to benefit another athlete Bhavna. Vikas Rana has also participated on behalf of India in the Winter Asian Games. Not only this, apart from skiing, he is also active in mountaineering and last year only he had conquered the world's highest peak Everest.
