Immediate priority of task force for next 3 Olympics

TIL Desk Sports/ The task force constituted by the Sports Ministry to prepare for the next three Olympic Games today met here for the first time and unanimously decided that an action plan for the 2020 Tokyo Games would be the panel’s immediate priority.

The responsibility of the immediate goal, i.e., to prepare an action plan for 2020 Tokyo Games has been entrusted to the three sportspersons in the panel — lone Olympic individual gold medallist Abhinav Bindra, national badminton coach Pullela Gopichand and former India hockey captain Viren Rasquinha.

“We met today for the first time and discussed various processes and protocols on how to get things done within the timeframe. We decided that our first focus is 2020 Tokyo Olympics and myself, Gopi (Gopichand) and Abhinav are in charge of that,” Rasquinha, who is a member of the panel.

The setting up of the task force was announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi just days after the end of the Rio Olympics, where India won just two medals, in order to help plan for the “effective participation” of Indian sportspersons in the next three Olympics in 2020, 2024 and 2028.