The wushu competition scheduled to be held at the Rakhep Semi-Covered Hall in Tripureshwor did not begin due to a dispute over the nomination of judges.
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Due to controversy, the wushu competition under the 16th President's Running Shield Games has only started on Thursday afternoon.
The wushu competition scheduled to be held at the Rakhep Semi-Covered Hall in Tripureshwor did not start due to a controversy over the nomination of judges.
The President's Running Shield officially started on Wednesday. President Ramchandra Poudel inaugurated the competition. The wushu competition was supposed to start on Wednesday itself.
When some of the players reached the wushu venue, they were in a state of confusion. They did not know whether the game would take place or not until the second day. Some were sleeping, some were busy on their mobile phones, while some players were practicing.
There was supposed to be 12 events for students in wushu. Players from all seven provinces participated.
Why did the game not start on time?
There has been a controversy in the wushu game for a long time. Two associations exist. One is a nationally recognized (led by Janak Bartaula) and the other is an internationally recognized (led by Bir Bahadur Tamang) Wushu association. Wushu national players have been directly affected by the two associations while playing in national and international competitions.
Now, student players who have come to play in the President's Running Shield have also faced the same fate.
A dispute has arisen over who will be the judges in this competition. The nationally recognized association is insistent that the judges selected by the Wushu Technical Committee should be used. But the dispute has started after the other side insisted on having 5 judges. It is said that they are judges who participated in the recently concluded Wushu Technical Course in the Far West.
After pressure from National Sports Council Member Secretary Ramcharitra Mehta to keep those 5 judges, Wushu's head coach Fatt Bahadur Lama (Yonjan) resigned on Thursday.
Lama, who submitted his resignation to the council, said, ‘There was interference in the technical aspect. I insisted that I could not conduct the competition by appointing an incompetent person. He (the member secretary) said that if that is the case, I should resign. I also resigned.’
The judges nominated by the Wushu Technical Committee to conduct the competition had also collected signatures. Two dozen judges have signed that the competition should be conducted only by those nominated by the committee and that the game should not be conducted if no one else is present.
Similarly, Wushu coaches and managers from various provinces had demanded that the game be conducted immediately, stating that the game could not start due to the referee nomination dispute, which directly affected the players.
The information officer of the National Sports Council informed that the game has been conducted after resolving the immediate dispute through discussions.
A total of 686 players, 98 each from all seven provinces, are competing in 6 different sports in the competition being organized by the National Sports Council. There are 26 events scheduled for athletics, 2 each for volleyball and kabaddi, and 12 each for karate, taekwondo, and wushu.
