New Delhi: India’s sports minister Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore said on Friday that his ministry is looking forward to appoint CEO’s and High Performance managers for every sports federation in a bid to reconstruct the entire system.
At an event organised by the Boxing Federation of India (BFI), Rathore said, “We will change the Target Olympic Podium (TOP) scheme. Every sport will now have CEOs and High Performance Managers. These managers will have to ensure that the players get better training for each sport and also which tournament they should take part in.”
“The CEOs will look at the logistics part – where the players need sport science, sports medicine. These two will be responsible for combining all of this,” he further added.
The Olympic silver-medalist also spoke about the need to maintain transparency in the entire system and thus directed all the sports federations to display the details of the funds on their websites.
“I want the funding that the federations receive displayed in detail on their websites. Where they got the money and where they spent it,” he said.
“The names of the selected players should also be put on their websites. This transparency is very necessary because each citizen, media, taxpayer should know where their money is being spent by the federation,” he added further.
Bergamasco named as Performance Director for senior women boxers
Italian coach Raffaele Bergamasco, who coached the Indian women’s boxing team and led them to their best ever outing at the AIBA Women’s Youth Boxing Championship has now been made the Performance Director for the senior women boxers.
During the felicitation of the medal winners of the World Championships, a BFI official said, “Raffaele has been appointed as Performance Director for women’s boxing. He will now also be a part of the team coaching the elite women along with coaching the Youth Women’s team.”
In an interaction with PTI, Raffaele opened up about his plans for the team.
“I am new to the team. Tomorrow I will look at them and will have a talk with the elite coaches. The strategy for the future will be the same as the youth team,” he said.
He added, “I don’t know about 2024 (Olympics). I will not say anything beforehand. We will go step by step and 2024 will be our best. The girls just need to keep working hard and we will keep on achieving.”
Cash prizes were given to Nitu (49kg), Jyoti (51kg), Sakshi (54kg), Shashi Chopra (57kg) and Ankushita Boro (64kg) won gold medals at the event which ended last month. Also awarded were Anupama (81kg) and Neha Yadav (+81kg) who won bronze medals to make it a total of seven medals for India.