Shooting legend Debevec hits out at ISSF, Bindra

The ISSF and its athletes committee, headed by Abhinav Bindra, on Tuesday received brickbats from three-time Olympic medallist Rajmond Debevec, who said gender equality in 2020 Olympics could have been achieved without scrapping the existing three events According to the International Olympic Association's Agenda 2020, all international sports federations are to make changes to their sport to promote gender equality by the Tokyo Games. In line with the IOC directive, the International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) has proposed some changes, where double trap along with men's rifle prone and 50m pistol are likely to be dropped from the Olympics to allow new events that will see more women participation at the Olympic Games.

The recommendations came from the athletes committee, led by the Indian Olympian champion. "I, as a shooter, feel offended because the ISSF led this procedure and accepted the recommendations in a non transparent manner. I feel there was a lack of democracy. "The statutory rules of the ISSF demands that such a crucial change be adopted in the general assembly, which was not the case here," Debevec, a gold medal winner at the Sydney Olympics, said. The Slovenian legend is in the capital for the ongoing season-opening ISSF World Cup.