(Source: PTI)India’s lone Olympic gold-medallist Abhinav Bindra and national badminton coach Pullela Gopichand on Monday found a place in an eight-member Task Force of the Sports Ministry to draw up an action plan for the next three Olympic Games. Bindra, Gopichand and former Indian hockey captain Viren Rasquinha were the only three former sportspersons named in the task force. Asked to whom the task force will submit its report, Goel said, “The report will be submitted to Sports Ministry. This task force is open for all, whoever wants to give ideas, he can give. Anybody can give suggestions to this task force and moreover anybody can come and give the suggestion directly to the Sports Minister.”Goel said all the suggestions and recommendations of the task force will be applied to Asian Games and Commonwealth Games also.

Source: Indian Express January 30, 2017 14:26 UTC