The final time India hosted an International Olympic Committee (IOC) session was again within the 12 months 1983, the 86th version, in New Delhi. And after 40 years, the 141st IOC session will likely be held from October 15 to 17 in Mumbai.

In the interim, India has come to the foreground as one of many premier centres of sporting excellence in addition to being world champions in a number of sports activities.

The 12 months 1983 can be important because the Indian males’s cricket staff lifted the Cricket World Cup, beating the two-time defending champions West Indies in a memorable last. Kapil Dev, the person main India, turned a family title and a champion in each sense of the phrase.

The sport of cricket can be reportedly set to be included within the 2028 Los Angeles Olympic programme, with the addition of males’s and ladies’s T20 matches, on the 2023 IOC Session in Mumbai.

India have received a complete of 399 medals within the Asian Games and 22 medals on the Olympics for the reason that final IOC Session held within the nation, marking a big swell within the medal haul.

In truth, the earlier two editions of the Asian Games and Olympics in Hangzhou and Tokyo produced India’s best-ever performances.

At the nineteenth Asian Games, India received a historic 107 medals, breaking the edge of the 100-medal mark in type. At the thirty second Olympic Games, India received their second-ever particular person Gold as Neeraj Chopra emerged as the brand new star of monitor and subject not solely in India, however across the globe. India’s first particular person gold medal winner was Abhinav Bindra, who revolutionised the game of capturing within the nation.

India’s participation, too, has been on a gentle rise with the final editions of the Asian Games and Olympics being the highest-ever in its historical past.

Apart from sports activities, India have just lately overtaken China as essentially the most populous nation on the planet and given that just about 50% of it’s beneath the age of 25, India stands on the precipice of a sporting revolution.

Being the fifth-largest financial system, India presents one of many foremost markets for international sports activities. The IOC Session in Mumbai, which coincides with India’s 76th 12 months of Independence, is a chance to spotlight the position of sport within the nation and rejoice its contribution to the Olympic Movement.

The 141st IOC Session can be slated to bolster India’s rising stature as a pre-eminent hub of worldwide diplomacy, a month after New Delhi hosted the celebrated 18th G20 Summit again in September.