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AFI all set to zoom in on medal hopes

<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->KEEPING in view the 2010 Commonwealth Games, the Amatuer Athletic Federation of India has chalked out a detailed programme to indentify and train junior athletes who could bag top hounours for the country at the international level.

Chief National athletics coach Suresh Babu, while speaking to Sportsline at the NIS here today, said that the primary plan of the federation was to identify promising athletes in the age group of 17-19 years.

He said that for this the federation would select the junior athletes with outstanding performances at the national meets. These athletes would be kept under direct supervision of the federation and annual national athletic camps would be organised to train them before all major competitions.

The secreatry of the federation, Lalit Bhannot, would himself monitor the programme and would act as a co-ordinator for every aspect of the training programme. He said that the long-term programme aimed to ascertain results at the Olympics also. <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->