Hope AAI doesn't repeat the same mistakes: Deepika after lifting of suspension

India's top-ranked woman archer Deepika Kumari is happy that the suspension of the national federation (AAI) has finally been lifted, saying she now wants the administrators of the game not to repeat the same mistakes in future.

Factionalism in the Archery Association of India (AAI) has led to its suspension by the world body in August and Indian archers were barred from competing at the South Asian Games, and were allowed at the Asian Championships in Bangkok as "neutral athletes" only because it was a Continental Olympic Qualifying event.

But as per the Delhi High Court order, the elections were held on last Saturday and the World Archery finally recognised the process and conditionally lifted the suspension on Thursday.

"Everyone is happy that suspension has finally been lifted. We can now represent our country. We just now hope that they (AAI) don't repeat their past mistakes and must learn from it," the former world number one told PTI from Pune.

"We should know our schedule much in advance, so we can be prepared. Hope we can now go for personal training and the entries are not sent at last minute. If everything goes in time, it helps us. This is our main expectation."
"I don't want to talk about Olympics. We were always focused, even when the federation was banned. When all the doors were closed, you have the ray of hope from somewhere and we were counting on that."