Heena Sidhu has confirmed she will not participate in the Asian Airgun Shotgun Championship in Iran in December because of the competitions rules that require women contestants to wear a hijab or headscarf. She added, however, that the competition never really figured in her plans for 2016.The tournaments official website states womens clothing in the shooting range and public places is required to conform to the rules and regulations of Iran. In a series of tweets from her Twitter handle on Saturday, Sidhu said she had opted out of the same event in Iran two years ago for the same reason. I would like to clarify that its not because wearing a hijab could be a hindrance to my performance since as an athlete Im expected to adapt to all conditions, she tweeted. My concern is the larger question of athletes being forced to follow a religious norm. Shooting is a very individual sport and Im not here as a revolutionary whos asking all female athletes to take a stand on this issue. If they are OK with following it, Im no one to judge.She added: I think religion should be kept out of the sporting arena. As athletes we are there at an event from all over the world on our hard work and merit, and for religious norms to be forced upon us is not acceptable to me.NRAI respects the social traditions of its host nation. These social measures are adopted by all competing nations. Indeed even tourists, visiting businesswoman, &a diplomats are required to comply with such measures. Having said that, we look forward to competing in Iran and are very hopeful of our teams performance at the games, said Raninder Singh, National Rifle Association of India (NRAI) president.Heena had won a Gold medal in the 10m air pistol at the last Asian Championship in New Delhi in 2015.Heena is the only Indian shooter to pull out of the event and has been replaced by Harveen Sarao. ? Air Max 97 Australia Cheap . 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LAUSANNE, Switzerland -- Russian athletes and officials who are proven to have been part of a doping manipulation system should be banned for life from the Olympics, IOC President Thomas Bach said Thursday.Bach gave his personal view one day before Canadian investigator Richard McLaren publishes a final report into alleged state-backed cheating at the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics.Proof of systematic doping would be aggravated circumstances to justify life bans, the IOC leader said at a news conference after a three-day executive board meeting.I would not like to see this person again at any Olympic Games in any function, said Bach, who declined to speculate if fresh revelations Friday could lead to calls for Russias exclusion from the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Games. I do not know the content and the scope of the report of Professor McLaren.Bach did note that as an IOC disciplinary commission chairman he approved life bans for Austrian team members implicated in a doping program at the 2006 Turin Winter Games.However, proving that individual athletes knew of systematic doping involving state agencies could be difficult.McLaren, who was appointed by the World Anti-Doping Agency in May, is expected to give more detail about cheating operations at the Sochi laboratory.In his interim report in July, McLaren confirmed claims by former lab director Grigory Rodchenkov of a hole-in-the-wall swapping system aided by the FSB security agency to exchange athletes dirty urine samples for clean ones.Earlier Thursday, the IOC member appointed to oversee disciplinary cases that arise from McLarens evidence acknowledged they could be tough to prove.Can you prove (athletes) were aware? Denis Oswald said on the sidelines of a sports law conference in Geneva.It is not that we would be scared to attack high level people in the Russian regime, the Swiss lawyer said. The question is more on the legal point of view. Can you punish athletes if they have done nothing and whether they were not aware of what was happening?Bach has also appointed a second IOC commission, headed by former Switzerland president Samuel Schmid, to evaluate if McLarens report and evidence proves a state-run doping system.ddddddddddddAnd then based on that we will see if we can start cases against athletes, Oswald said.Oswald will approach his next Olympic clean-up project after spending several months disqualifying dozens of athletes -- mostly in Russia and former Soviet Union countries -- from the 2008 Beijing Olympics and 2012 London Olympics. Their use of anabolic steroids was detected in re-tests of samples.He acknowledged it was easy to see the link in claims that Russian authorities approved a doping program for the home Olympics at Sochi after the teams poor performance at the 2010 Vancouver Winter Games.There are some indications according to first report there was this mouse hole (in the Sochi lab) and trafficking of samples, Oswald said. And there are certainly enough elements to prove that something was done by the authority, by the minister of sport.Still, the evidence to prove doping might be missing.With DNA we can prove that the sample under the name of that person is not belonging to the person, Oswald said, of the sample swaps in Sochi. But, again, does it mean the original urine is positive, is contaminated?For now, Russia is atop the Sochi medal table with 13 golds ahead of Norways 11, and 33 total medals compared to 28 for the United States.Asked if Russia will remain there in the fallout of McLarens report and the IOCs follow-up commissions, Oswald said probably not.Meanwhile, United States lawmakers want Bach to attend a congressional committee hearing next Thursday to provide an update on sports fight against doping.Unfortunately I cannot attend there, said Bach, adding that the IOC will provide by other means all the information they may need. ' ' '