CWG 2018: India's gymnasts penalised for not having Emblem on attire

New Delhi - The trio additionally received a penalty of 1.0 point in the team final at the 2018 Commonwealth Games.

India's artistic gymnastics women Aruna Budda Reddy, Pranati Nayak and Pranati Das were penalised 0.3 points at the 2018 Commonwealth Games.
The penalties came after it was found that the National Emblem was missing from their attires and they were not wearing identical attires, reports Hindustan Times.
The trio additionally received a penalty of 1.0 point in the team final at the 2018 Commonwealth Games.

"It's quite surprising how such a big error has happened in an international event," said Bisweshwar Nandi, the coach of Dipa Karmakar, quoted as saying.

According to the artistic gymnastics rulebook, "They (gymnasts) must wear a national identification or emblem on the leotard/unitard in accordance with the most recent FIG (international gymnastics federation) publicity rules.
"For missing the national emblem/and wrong placement under 'Violations of Attire', 0.30 penalty points will be deducted from Gym/App from the final score, while for not wearing identical leotards, the team will receive one penalty point," the report added.
On Saturday, Aruna Budda Reddy and Pranati Das finished a disappointing 14th and 16th respectively, at the games.
While Aruna totalled 44.400 after her four rotations, Pranati's final score was 43.900 at the end of her four rotations at the Coomera Indoor Sports Centre.
Aruna scored 13.650 in her favourite apparatus vault, while scoring 10.200 in uneven bars, 9.000 in balance beam, 11.550 in floor exercise.
Pranati, on the other hand, scored 12.900 in vault, 10.050 in uneven bars, 9.900 in balance beam and 11.050 in floor exercise.
With a total of 128.975 points, the team finished seventh.
With inputs from IANS

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