Task force recommends setting up empowered panel for Oly 2020

Sports Ministry's task force, constituted to prepare an action plan for the next three Olympic Games, today recommended setting up an empowered steering committee to take charge of 2020 Games in Tokyo.

The eight-member task force, including lone Olympic individual gold medallist Abhinav Bindra and national badminton coach Pullela Gopichand met Sports Minister Vijay Goel today.

"We put up a few pointers during our (task force) meeting and the main recommendation was to set up an empowered steering committee to take charge of the next Olympics," Gopichand told

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