Saina’s father cleared to accompany her

Hours after Saina Nehwal threatened to pull out of the Games, over her father’s name missing from the Indian team’s official list, the Indian Olympic Association (IOA) on Tuesday cleared Harvir Singh’ s accreditation.

Lashing out

Earlier on Monday, the London Olympics bronze medallist had lashed out in a series of tweets at the IOA after her father’s name was deleted from the list of entrants to the games village.

“Surprised to see that when we started for CWG 2018 my father was confirmed as the team official and I paid the whole amount for that but when we came to the games village his name was cut from the team official category.. and he can’t even stay with me,” an irked Saina wrote in her first tweet.

“He can’t come to my matches and he can’t enter the village nor he can meet me in anyway...what kind of support is this..I wanted his support as I regularly take him for my competitions...but I didn’t understand why nobody informed me all this earlier...that he can’t enter anywhere,” her next tweet had read.

Reacting to the decision, Saina thanked the IOA for sorting out the issue in a tweet: “Thank u so much @ioaindia for the support and help sorting out my father’s accreditation card in such short notice...Hopefully it will b great for the matches ahead ..and I m sorry for all the trouble.”