NEW DELHI: India will bid for hosting the Olympic Games in 2036. A roadmap for the same will be presented before the full members of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) during the IOC Session in Mumbai in September next year, union sports minister Anurag Thakur informed here on Tuesday.
In an exclusive interview, Thakur told TOI that the government will back the Indian Olympic Association's (IOA) bid for hosting the Games and that Gujarat's Ahmedabad will likely be the 'host city' with world-class sporting infrastructure available there. The union minister said that with India having previously hosted the 1982 Asian Games and 2010 Commonwealth Games, the next logical pit stop for the country was the Summer Olympics.
