Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s goal is to make India a sporting society. The world’s most populous country has achieved modest success in the history of the Olympics in relation to its size.
The Prime Minister of India who participated in the future summit of the UN countries and the opening of the UN General Assembly Narendra Modi confirmed during his visit to New York that India is serious about the 2036 Summer Olympics. Hosting the Games would crown India’s development into a sporting society, which Modi highlighted last year in connection with the para-sports Asian Games.
Modi spoke about India’s Olympic plans to an Indian audience at the Nassau Coliseum on Long Island on Sunday. He promised the 15,000 listeners that India will organize the Summer Olympics in the near future for the first time in the country’s history.
– Very soon you will be able to witness the Olympics in India as well. We are going all out to aim for the 2036 Olympics, Modi announced, according to the Inside the Games website.
Hosting the tournament is related to Modi’s goals to increase India’s profile in the fields of sports, culture and entertainment.
Chopra is India’s number one star
Indian athletes have participated in the Summer Olympics already during the British colonial rule and continuously since 1920. India participated in the Winter Games for the first time in 1964.
The world’s most populous country has achieved modest success in the history of the Olympics in relation to its size. India has a total of 41 Olympic medals.
In the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics, India reached the javelin thrower By Neeraj Chopra leading to one gold medal, two silver and four bronze medals. This summer, the spoils of the Paris Games were a silver and five bronze, when Chopra missed the silver in the javelin.
The cities participating in the search for the 2036 Summer Olympics are still in the guessing stage. According to various sources, India’s Ahmedabad, Turkey’s Istanbul, Poland’s Warsaw, Chile’s Santiago, Qatar’s Doha and Indonesia’s Nusantara, which is still under construction, would participate in the search with varying degrees of interest and seriousness.