The Indian Olympic Association plans to respond to the International Olympic Committee later this week explaining the status of its president Suresh Kalmadi, the disgraced head of the 2010 Commonwealth Games organizing committee. The IOA faces possible sanctions for not respecting the IOC's ethics code in regard to Kalmadi, who has continued as IOA president despite spending nine months in jail for graft charges. The IOC has asked for an explanation by Thursday. However, the Indian association will not be meeting until Friday. “We've intimated to the IOC that we are discussing the issue at an emergency meeting Friday (March 2),” IOA acting president Vijay Kumar Malhotra told reporters Monday. “We will explain the situation to them after the executive council discusses the issue.” Kalmadi faces corruption charges related to the Commonwealth Games, which were marred by construction delays and a budget which ballooned to $15 billion from an initial estimate of $412 million. Malhotra has been running the IOA as acting president since Kalmadi was jailed last year.
