The World Squash Federation has distanced itself from suggestions that the sport's governing body were looking into taking legal action over the International Olympic Committee's controversial exclusion of squash from the 2012 Olympics.
Last month, The Daily Telegraph reported that the WSF were yet to rule out the possibility over the IOC's decision four years ago, which left squash and karate on the sidelines despite garnering enough single votes in the first round after baseball and softball where ejected from the 2012 Games.
According to squash officials, the IOC's second secret ballot vote was a “misinterpretation” of the Olympic charter believing that the procedure would be discarded by the Court of Arbitration for Sport in Lausanne if any legal case was pursued.
However in a letter to England Squash, the WSF wrote: "There seems to be some doubt over the position of the WSF regarding rumours that squash might bring legal action against the IOC, over the way in which the decision was made in Singapore in 2005 not to admit any replacement sports into the 2012 Olympic Games.
"The Board of the WSF has never considered the possibility of any legal action in this respect as anything other than counter-productive.
"There is absolutely no chance of the WSF bringing or being associated with any such legal action against the IOC."
The letter added: "The matter is dead, not that it was ever alive, as far as WSF is concerned."
- Daily Telegraph