Staging big athletics events can help boost India’s credentials for Olympic bid: Sebastian Coe
Hosting a Continental Tour athletics event next August in Bhubaneswar and bidding to stage the 2028 Under-20 World Championships are good signs even as India prepares to bid for the 2036 Olympics, World Athletics president Sebastian Coe has said.
Successful staging of major events can help India ‘demonstrate a track record of sporting delivery at the international level’ which will be helpful for the country in its quest to become the 2036 Summer Games host, according to Coe, who has thrown his hat in the ring for the post of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) president.
The AFI’s 2025 calendar includes a bronze-level Continental Tour event in the Odisha capital on August 10 next year. During Coe’s recent visit to India, the AFI also submitted a letter of intent to host the Under-20...