charged with murdering his wife and mother in the USA, former Indian shot-putter Iqbal Singh’s contemporaries remember him as a fiercely competitive athlete and are bewildered by the turn of events in the 1983 Asian bronze medallist’s life.
The 62-year-old Iqbal was on Monday charged with first and third-degree murder after he admitted to killing his wife and mother in Pennsylvania.
One of his contemporaries, stunned by the development, said that he remembers Iqbal as someone who threatened to take the then Amateur Athletics Federation of India to court over his non-selection for the 1988 Seoul Olympics.
He was a popular athlete in the 1980s.
He once threatened to file a case against the national federation for not selecting him for the 1988 Olympics.He said he would hire a top lawyer.
We advised him not do so, he then dropped the idea,” said the veteran, who did not wish to be named.
