Pakistan to host Tent Pegging World Cup Qualifiers after India Scheme Exposed

[Sulman Badshah]

India has lost the hosting rights for Tent Pegging World Cup Qualifiers after letting Indian players play for Nepal’s team illegally. The qualifying competition will now take place in Pakistan.

International Tent Pegging Federation has canceled the qualifying round for the World Cup in India after India unrightfully included its horsemen in Nepal team impersonating to be Nepalese. The fraud was unveiled by the Indian media itself.

According to the reports, India firstly registered Nepal on its own and then made Indian players wear Nepal’s jerseys. After Indian media exposed the scam, International Tent Pegging Federation ripped off the hosting rights from India.

The event where India tried to trick the governing body took place in March 2022. Also, Indian horsemen impersonating Nepalese players have been suspended by ITPF.

 

[Joe Shearer]

Congratulations.

You should now be clear favourites to win.

India has lost the hosting rights for Tent Pegging World Cup Qualifiers after letting Indian players play for Nepal’s team illegally. The qualifying competition will now take place in Pakistan.

International Tent Pegging Federation has canceled the qualifying round for the World Cup in India after India unrightfully included its horsemen in Nepal team impersonating to be Nepalese. The fraud was unveiled by the Indian media itself.

According to the reports, India firstly registered Nepal on its own and then made Indian players wear Nepal’s jerseys. After Indian media exposed the scam, International Tent Pegging Federation ripped off the hosting rights from India.

The event where India tried to trick the governing body took place in March 2022. Also, Indian horsemen impersonating Nepalese players have been suspended by ITPF.

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just curiousity.

How many of you have tried tent-pegging yourselves?

 

[SuvarnaTeja]

Tent Pegging - Having a peg while camping in your tent.​

 

[Joe Shearer]

Congratulations.

You should now be clear favourites to win.


just curiousity.

How many of you have tried tent-pegging yourselves?

Not ONE?

I thought from the whizz-bang breathless post that all of you were ardent fans and exponents.

Ah well.

 

[Bossman]

Congratulations.

You should now be clear favourites to win.


just curiousity.

How many of you have tried tent-pegging yourselves?

I have

 

[Maula Jatt]

its actually quite popular in villages etc I have seen it live couple of times

 

[INDIAPOSITIVE]

Another EFI shocker: Inquiry committee says it never found riders guilty of impersonation

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http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/...ofinterest&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=cppst



NEW DELHI: The controversy surrounding the impersonation by Indian riders who represented Nepal during the ITPF Tent Pegging World Cup Qualifiers has got a new twist, almost a year after the shocking incident was first reported by TOI.
The committee investigating the ‘fake’ participation of ‘Nepalese horsemen’ during the qualifiers in Greater Noida revealed on Saturday that it had never recommended the suspension of Indian riders in its report to the Equestrian Federation of India (EFI), and that it didn’t find the four participants “guilty of any impersonation or wrongdoing whatsoever”.

On the contrary, Col (retd) Rakesh Solanki, who headed the committee as its chairman, informed that the report had made adverse observations in respect to the functioning of the EFI, its office bearers, including secretary general Col Jaiveer Singh, and the Executive Committee (EC).
In an email exclusively shared with TOI, Nair wrote: “…on the contrary, much against the general expectation and anticipation, the four riders (who have been suspended by the EFI) have been given a clean chit in the report (by the committee). We make it clear that we have NOT found the four riders guilty of any impersonation or any wrongdoing whatsoever. A plain reading of the report would demonstrate this.
"Action said to have been taken by the EFI against four riders on the basis of our report is not only contrary to its findings, but is also a gross misrepresentation of the facts and of what the report actually states.
“Additionally, the report has passed observations in respect to the functioning of the EFI, its office bearers and the EC. EFI’s contention that ‘we have no role to play in the incident’ is incorrect,” Nair added.
TOI had, in its edition dated March 15, exclusively reported how the EFI made the quartet of Indian riders scapegoats by suspending them for two years each to save its own officials. However, following Nair’s admission that the committee didn’t recommend any sanctions, it would be interesting to see what defense the EFI comes out with this time.

In a related development, Indian Olympic Association (IOA) president, Narinder Dhruv Batra, has also written a scathing letter to Col Singh, accusing the EFI of bringing the Indian sports ecosystem into disrepute by its actions. This after some of the Pakistan-based news channels ran stories on the impersonation scam defaming the country.

“Are you suggesting that since tent pegging is not an Olympic event, a federation can get away with such unethical acts allowing Indians to compete as nationals of another country. This is a very serious offence and, if the Indian Penal Code (section 419) is invoked, it can even include imprisonment for those who perpetrated this act. The actions of EFI has brought strong disrepute to the community of sports administrators and is a matter of grave concern for everyone in the Indian sports ecosystem,” Batra added.

 

[khail007]

Congratulations.

You should now be clear favourites to win.


just curiousity.

How many of you have tried tent-pegging yourselves?

Joe looking at your DP, I believe you are the only one on this forum.

Note: @Bossman claimed to be one.

 

[313ghazi]

Congratulations.

You should now be clear favourites to win.


just curiousity.

How many of you have tried tent-pegging yourselves?

Do it all the time in my fields when I'm rotating them.

 

[Maula Jatt]

Punjab k different areas main pura saal hi kahin na kahin tent pegging k baray matches hotay rehtay hain. Summers main night time flood lights par

I always thought it was a Punjabi sport first time hearing that its a worldwide thing

 

[Joe Shearer]

I have

Super!

Good to read this.

Those who haven't tried it won't know the rush of adrenaline it brings!

Tent pegging looks good only in dhoor ghatta wali open place with Punjabi announcer

LOL.

Yes, I've seen lots and lots of videos, but ours was rather staid, I'm afraid. Just eight or nine teams riding for three sets of pegs. Our mounts were mostly polo ponies or Army or Police remounts; we still had a few Walers, but the Army was mainly mounted on the Saharanpur stud farm remounts. The days of K's daughter and son-in-law and others like them running really good stud farms in the Punjab were still in the future.

 

[Joe Shearer]

Joe looking at your DP, I believe you are the only one on this forum.

Note: @Bossman claimed to be one.

I'm sure he's ridden to pick up pegs. Why would he claim it otherwise?

When I was a much younger person, I was very fond of it, and the sowars were very indulgent, whitewashing pegs, putting them in, and watching Baba critically. I didn't get away with crap, either.

Punjab k different areas main pura saal hi kahin na kahin tent pegging k baray matches hotay rehtay hain. Summers main night time flood lights par

I've HEARD of tent-pegging with flaming pegs at night, but never seen it. Wouldn't have liked to have tried it, frankly.

 

[Joe Shearer]

I always thought it was a Punjabi sport first time hearing that its a worldwide thing

Arre, nahin, bhai! South Asian, certainly; hereabouts, it's nezabazi, don't know what others call it, but it was an Asiad event in 1982, and a guy whom I'd beaten the previous year won the individual championship at the Asiad. A Pakistani got the silver, an Iraqi got the bronze. Those days Iraq was a country, not a devastated bomb-dump.

@Bossman
I had a brilliant mount, a bay Waler, an Australian gelding named Torpedo, who was on the bit, very much, and a bit stolid, so wouldn't move a millimetre in the run-up, It was so easy picking up pegs with him. None of my other mounts was close to him. Good mouth, too, so after the run, it was possible to slow him down and not tire him too much. Dry-coated, so we used to put him and the others into the water, whenever we could, and they really enjoyed cooling off.
Really miss riding. 1981 was the last year I rode.

 

[RIP Pak LAW]

Why India did this ...didn't understand the impersonation

 

[My-Analogous]

Congratulations.

You should now be clear favourites to win.


just curiousity.

How many of you have tried tent-pegging yourselves?

Since it is not so popular, So it gives Indian birth right to do what ever they want? Where is sportsman ship?