The Puerto Rican ring great Hector "Macho" Camacho has died after being taken off life support, the director of the Centro Medico trauma centre said. In Puerto Rico, Dr Ernesto Torres said Camacho went into cardiac arrest in the pre-dawn hours yesterday and was then taken off life support and died shortly thereafter. Camacho, 50, was declared brain dead on Thursday following a shooting in his hometown of Bayamon. Camacho's mother, Maria Matias, said she accepted the doctors' verdict on Thursday that the three-time world champion was clinically brain-dead and could not recover. "I lost my son three days ago," she said in a firm and determined voice. "He's alive only because of a machine. My son is not alive." AP, AFP
The International Olympic Committee has threatened to suspend India's membership if the national federation did not conduct elections as per the Olympic charter. The faction-ridden Indian Olympic Association (IOA) is due to hold elections on December 5 to replace tainted ex-president Suresh Kalmadi, who was jailed for corruption during the 2010 Commonwealth Games in New Delhi. A court in New Delhi has directed the IOA to hold elections as per the government's sports code, while the IOC wants the federation to abide by the Olympic charter that favours autonomy. An IOC statement said it had written a letter to the Indian federation informing it that a proposal to suspend the IOA would be presented to the IOC's executive board if the "current situation was not rectified". AP