04-07-2023, 04:13 AM
IIHF PRESIDENT ISSUES SHARP REBUKE OVER BHARATI SECTARIANISM
Apparently Bharat's actions in this year's Challenge Cup of Asia-Pacific Division I really got under the skin of International Ice Hockey Federation president Luc Tardif. The Canadian-born Frenchman pulled no punches in an official press release yesterday in the wake a unified complaint filed against them by the Oceanian nations, all of whom are IIHF members of various degrees - that is, Australia, New Zealand, Papua, Micronesia, Melanesia, Polynesia, and Hawaii.
"In the history of our sport we have had incidences of two people groups who were at war or otherwise didn't get along, and usually one of the teams ended up behaving poorly towards the other in that situation. I think the world gets that Bharat and Kashmir hate each other's guts, and that the Hindu nationalists that run Bharat really don't like Muslims. We've seen enough actions that have warranted censure by Bharat in particular to realize that. But the words of Bharat's head coach, Dimp Chakravarti, and the in-game actions of Lakshmi Bopanna and Naveen Sharma, have done something we never thought would happen - they dragged other countries into their political vendetta, which shouldn't've been brought onto the ice in the first place even with their supposed political enemy! I'm sorry, but whether it's Russia-Uralica, USA-Mexico, Bharat-Kashmir, Iran-Saudi Kingdom, or whatever else, the IIHF rules dictate we are to leave our political differences outside of the sport. Bharat has violated these rules egregiously. The only violation of these rules I think is even close to comparable is Babylon's actions last year. Yes, those were worse, because we actually had threats against the lives of our staff made by political figures.
Don't fool yourselves. If Bharat continues on this trajectory, we will have no choice but to start issuing suspensions against their federation. I am sick and tired of hearing complaint after complaint about them, and when we try to approach them about it they get overly defensive against legitimate concerns. I have already notified the Bharati Ice Hockey Union that Dimp Chakravarti has been fined two thousand Euros and suspended from the next Challenge Cup season for false accusations of racism against several people, including the Disciplinary Board, Papua captain Tristan Bates, and Bahrain captain Faruk Najjar, and furthermore that were they in the World Championship system he would have been suspended from that as well. I have also told them that this is their final warning, to keep their sectarian-motivated language and dirty hits off the ice. If I hear of one more instance of either from Mr. Stevens or anyone else on IIHF staff, Bharat will receive a two-year blanket suspension from all IIHF events. Bluntly put, they need to quit acting like foolish children."
Bharati Ice Hockey Union president Ashok Gupta later admitted that he almost completely agreed with everything Tardif said and that Chakravarti, who had already been "skating on thin ice," was fired and replaced by Bhuvan Patel, former assistant coach of the men's ice hockey team at the University of Wolverhampton in England. He did mention that he thought the accusations of racism against specific members of the Disciplinary Board were legit but that they were "mostly false, as a result of a hasty generalization," and that they did not include board head Scott Stevens.
It appears not everyone was happy with Chakravarti's sacking, though, as earlier this morning there was a protest by a small group of Hindu nationalists in front of the BIHU office in Delhi. But one interviewee summed up general sentiment about it when asked about it by local news: "Hockey's too much of a niche sport for most people to even care about it in Delhi. The only people protesting are extreme nationalists. Ignore them."
Apparently Bharat's actions in this year's Challenge Cup of Asia-Pacific Division I really got under the skin of International Ice Hockey Federation president Luc Tardif. The Canadian-born Frenchman pulled no punches in an official press release yesterday in the wake a unified complaint filed against them by the Oceanian nations, all of whom are IIHF members of various degrees - that is, Australia, New Zealand, Papua, Micronesia, Melanesia, Polynesia, and Hawaii.
"In the history of our sport we have had incidences of two people groups who were at war or otherwise didn't get along, and usually one of the teams ended up behaving poorly towards the other in that situation. I think the world gets that Bharat and Kashmir hate each other's guts, and that the Hindu nationalists that run Bharat really don't like Muslims. We've seen enough actions that have warranted censure by Bharat in particular to realize that. But the words of Bharat's head coach, Dimp Chakravarti, and the in-game actions of Lakshmi Bopanna and Naveen Sharma, have done something we never thought would happen - they dragged other countries into their political vendetta, which shouldn't've been brought onto the ice in the first place even with their supposed political enemy! I'm sorry, but whether it's Russia-Uralica, USA-Mexico, Bharat-Kashmir, Iran-Saudi Kingdom, or whatever else, the IIHF rules dictate we are to leave our political differences outside of the sport. Bharat has violated these rules egregiously. The only violation of these rules I think is even close to comparable is Babylon's actions last year. Yes, those were worse, because we actually had threats against the lives of our staff made by political figures.
Don't fool yourselves. If Bharat continues on this trajectory, we will have no choice but to start issuing suspensions against their federation. I am sick and tired of hearing complaint after complaint about them, and when we try to approach them about it they get overly defensive against legitimate concerns. I have already notified the Bharati Ice Hockey Union that Dimp Chakravarti has been fined two thousand Euros and suspended from the next Challenge Cup season for false accusations of racism against several people, including the Disciplinary Board, Papua captain Tristan Bates, and Bahrain captain Faruk Najjar, and furthermore that were they in the World Championship system he would have been suspended from that as well. I have also told them that this is their final warning, to keep their sectarian-motivated language and dirty hits off the ice. If I hear of one more instance of either from Mr. Stevens or anyone else on IIHF staff, Bharat will receive a two-year blanket suspension from all IIHF events. Bluntly put, they need to quit acting like foolish children."
Bharati Ice Hockey Union president Ashok Gupta later admitted that he almost completely agreed with everything Tardif said and that Chakravarti, who had already been "skating on thin ice," was fired and replaced by Bhuvan Patel, former assistant coach of the men's ice hockey team at the University of Wolverhampton in England. He did mention that he thought the accusations of racism against specific members of the Disciplinary Board were legit but that they were "mostly false, as a result of a hasty generalization," and that they did not include board head Scott Stevens.
It appears not everyone was happy with Chakravarti's sacking, though, as earlier this morning there was a protest by a small group of Hindu nationalists in front of the BIHU office in Delhi. But one interviewee summed up general sentiment about it when asked about it by local news: "Hockey's too much of a niche sport for most people to even care about it in Delhi. The only people protesting are extreme nationalists. Ignore them."
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