22 JAN , Delhi: Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sport (MYAS) on January 19th and 20th held its first Mission Olympic Cell (MOC) meeting outside Delhi and on the sidelines of the ongoing Hockey World Cup in Bhubaneswar, Odisha.
The fortnightly meeting, where members of MOC meet to discuss key agenda points of India’s Olympic Program and proposals of Target Olympic Podium Scheme (TOPS) athletes, was held in Bhubaneswar, Odisha where they also got to see the Indian men’s Hockey team play their last group stage match against the Wales team.
Talking about the experience of watching the players first-hand, former Indian Long jumper Anju Bobby George said “With this opportunity (to see the World Cup Match) we got a good chance to see them perform during a competition and can judge them rightly and can take that into consideration during the next meeting and evaluate them in a better manner to fill in the gap. So for us, it was a great opportunity and I would like to see many more matches, not just in hockey but other sports as well whenever we get a chance.”