Nearly 30 years after hosting the Asian games in 1982, India is set to host the XIX Common Wealth Games 2010 at Delhi. With just over a couple of months to go, Delhi is confident of staging the best ever Common Wealth Games. The green common wealth games being hosted will certainly give the country a competitive edge over others and hence an anticipation of a better show compared to Melbourne. Not only India’s reputation is coupled with the CWG 2010, but also the future of sports in India. If India delivers a good show, The International Olympic Committee (IOC) may consider India’s bid for the 2020 summer Olympic.
Hosting the CWG successfully will certainly catapult India’s status internationally. However success should not be use just to define economic status, but to redefine sports in India. But it remains to be seen what the Sports Ministry does after the CWG to keep the youths hooked to sports and developed sports in every sphere. Children’s should be encouraged to take up sports while schools and colleges should be directed to introduce sports. Apart from developing players, world class infrastructure should also be in place to provide the best training facilities to our athletes’.
If countries like China and Brazil have the capacity and mettle to hold Olympics why should India lack behind. Brazil will be hosting the world’s two largest sporting event in a span of two years – The 2014 FIFA World Cup followed by The Olympics in 2016. On the other hand China will be hosting the Asian Games this year in Guangzhou after hosting the best ever Olympics in 2008. So, India should go full on from now to successfully bid for the 2020 Olympic. If successful, then India should also bid for the 2015 Afro-Asian Games and 2018 Summer Youth Olympics to keep a brace with the preparation for the 2020 Olympic. Then 2023 should see India hosting the Asian Games again after 41 years and ultimately the FIFA World Cup in 2026 or 2030.
However all these events should be hosted in other cities of India like Kolkata, Mumbai, Chennai so that sporting infra and facilities are evenly spread out across the country instead of concentrating it in Delhi alone. This will eventually help in tapping and developing talented youths throughout the country and also provide a world class training facilities in each region of the country. A good infrastructure and training facilities will also boost the morality of Indian parents, who refrain from sports being taken up as a profession by their children’s.
India’s chances of successfully bidding the above events are quiet high considering the CWG 2010 is a grand success. After successfully hosting the first ever Afro-Asian Games in Hyderabad in 2003, the second edition at Algiers in 2007 has been indefinitely postponed. Host for the 2011 has not been announced yet and is likely to be called off too. So, India stands a good chance of revitalizing the ailing competition in 2015. Coming to the 2018 Youth Olympic, India again stands a chance because it has never hosted before. Moreover it will serve as a testing ground for the built up for the 2020 Olympic.
As far as the Asiad is concern, India has a good chance of hosting the XIX edition in 2023 after its failure to bid for the 2019 games. Moreover India, with its reputation of being the power house of Asia, hasn’t stage the Asiad since 1982. Then comes the main target of hosting the FIFA World Cup in either 2026 or 2030 provided any Asian Country don’t host it in its two preceding editions, which is quiet likely. Meanwhile hosting events like the Cricket World Cup, World Badminton Championship and others related events will establish India as a global hub for sports.
If India can achieve these in the coming 20 years, sports scenario of the country would change immensely and India will be a global player in sports.
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