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MUMBAI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi\u2019s announcement that India would be \u201cvery excited\u201d to organise an edition of the Olympic Games<\/a> in 2036 has set the ball rolling for the country to showcase its ability to organise global sporting events.
However, it\u2019s the Indian Olympic Association (IOA) which will need to prepare a detailed roadmap and come up with a strong bid to outsmart 10 other countries, who are also interested in hosting the sporting extravaganza.
James Macleod, IOC\u2019s director of Olympic solidarity, NOC relations and Olympism365, said that for India to realise its Olympic ambitions, the IOA and national sports federations (NSFs) must get behind the government by putting their respective houses in order to have a \u201cserious conversation\u201d in this direction with the IOC.\u201cWhenever we work with a country to host the Games, we work through with the NOC and it must be a strong partner for the IOC. We need to make sure that they have good relations with the government and that was the part of discussions we had here to make sure that the government and IOA work very closely for the bid.
“We are pleased with the announcement made by the Indian PM and that is a great signal that the government is interested in organising it. But it\u2019s also true that to have full support, the IOA and NSFs must have to get behind the bid to get up to the required standards to be able to have these conversations with the IOC for us to make a right decision,\u201d Macleod told TOI.
Mark Adams, director of communications at the IOC, said that the bidding process has to be sustainable, significantly cutting down the cost for potential hosts.
\u201cFor example, the Paris organisers have 95 percent of the venues already in existence. In Los Angeles, everything is already there. They did not have to build a single thing for the Games. But that doesn\u2019t mean that you have to have a very good legacy. If a few of the cities in India say that we want to really improve our sporting infrastructure and are going to invest the money anyway…that won\u2019t stop the bid. We are trying to find what works for you all from cities to region and country.\u201d<\/div>\n