bangalore the sports ministry on tuesday expressed disappointment that the international olympic committee ioc had decided to ban the indian olympic association the ban is most unfortunate the sports ministrys recent letter to the ioc was designed precisely to avoid this situation unfortunately nobody listened to us and everybody was on an ego trip pk deb secretary sports ministry told toi while claiming that the ban could have been avoided if the parties concerned had come to the discussion table looking forward deb said that in the present circumstances the ioc may even get back to the ministry it is possible they may even come and talk to us he said after we wrote to them to postpone the elections till all the matters are discussed and sorted out the ioa should have gone back to the ioc for discussions he added meanwhile sources in the ministry hinted that the government wont have any problem even if the ioa amended its constitution according to the olympic charter the ioa is now caught between the rock and a hard place let them amend the constitution as per the olympic charter we dont have any problem as the sports code is derived from the charter if that is done then we will tell the high court that so far as we are concerned the sports code has been followed ministry sources said the sources also said that if the ioc sets up an adhoc body with a reputed sportsperson at the helm then the ministry would be happy to talk to them if the ioc appoints someone like prakash padukone to run the ad hoc body then it will only benefit our sportspersons they said the sources felt that iocs action happened due to the mess in the ioa for them this was a good handle to work on as they wanted to get rid of all the unscrupulous elements and thats why they acted architects of the controversial sports code former sports ministers ms gill left and ajay maken i am not aware of the legal intricacies and dont know what exactly happened but there is still a lot of time left for rio olympics and i hope both ioc and ioa will come forward to solve the matter ramanathan krishnan tennis legend it is a very strange situation perhaps the lowest point for indian sport competing under the ioc flag is not a solution for indian athletes you dont get the motivation while doing that india are the founder of the asian games and now we are getting thrown out of the ioc joginder singh saini former chief national coach its a bad news for indian sports all this while we were fighting for hockey now we need to clean up all sports bodies prabhjot singh hockey player this is definitely bad for the indian olympic movement and such a loss of face is completely uncalled for the ioa should have followed all the guidelines to ensure