Mumbai :

Come Sunday and the International Olympic Committee (IOC) vote will decide the fate of three sports awaiting the Olympic nod.

While wrestling with it’s stronghold at the Games comes across as the most obvious choice, especially after the IOC crossed it out of the Olympic roster in February this year.

Hanging on tenterhooks will be the joint bid for baseball and softball and the third time bidders squash.

Joshna Chinappa, the first Indian girl to win the British squash championship back in 2003, understands the magnitude of the IOC meeting this weekend. Though confident of squash making the cut, she is wary of wrestling bagging the spot.

“Squash has a really good chance to make it in to the Olympics,” she said. “We are competing with wrestling which is a tough battle of course. But the whole squash fraternity has worked tirelessly for the last few years presenting squash bid for the Olympics to the IOC. We have gotten tremendous support from people and world celebrities from sport and different fields .So really hoping for the best.”

“I think the only real tough part is that wrestling is one of the original sports of the Olympics and should never have been taken out. So it definitely has a very good chance of going back in,” she added.

source: http://www.articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com / The Times of India / Home> Sports> More Sports> Squash / by Maria Bilkis, TNN / September 06th, 2013