NEW DELHI (AP) — Pakistan averted a boycott by its weightlifting team at the Commonwealth Games after an official took a last-minute decision to carry the flag into the opening ceremony instead of the lifter who had been nominated.
Shujauddin Malik, the 2006 gold medalist, was supposed to lead Pakistan into Sunday night's pageant, but provincial sports minister Dr. Mohammad Ali Shah reversed the decision.
Team manager Rashid Mehmood told The Associated Press that Shah said to Malik that it was chief-de-mission's right to lead the contingent.
Mehmood said the weightlifters considered withdrawing until Pakistan Olympic Association chief Arif Hasan assured them Shah would …
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