India: IWHF still awaiting its lost baggage from Russia
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August 6, 2003
The Hindustan Times
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New Delhi, August 6
The women's hockey team is still awaiting its excess baggage, which was not allowed to be carried back home from Russia, where it won a three-nation tournament last month.
The Aeroflot, in which the Indian team travelled, demanded US dollars 1,000 to be paid for the excess baggage, and did not exempt it even on the request of Russian Hockey Federation President S Chechenkov, an Indian Women's Hockey Federation (IWHF) release said today.
"Though Indian team has come back from Moscow after a successful tour, unfortunately, two goalkeeper kits and one packet of 14 stick bags was not allowed by the Aeroflot, in which the Indian team travelled, saying it was excess baggage weighing 86 kg," IWHF secretary Amrit Bose said in the release.
There were 22 members in the Indian team and it would have come to 3.86 kg excess baggage per person.
The IWHF was in touch with the Aeroflot, New Delhi and ready to pay the required charges for the excess baggage but it is still awaiting to hear from the airlines, the release said.
The July 8-15 tournament saw India winning one match, drawing two and losing one in a double round-robin format. Russia and Ukraine also garnered five points, the same as India, but were pipped due to inferior goal average.
India also played a Test match with Russia which it won by a 3-0 margin.
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