Delhi to host All Star meet as CWG test event: Kalmadi
Guangzhou: Delhi will host an All
Star meet in August next year that would also double up as a
test event for the 2010 Commonwealth Games, newly re-elected
Asian Athletics Association president Suresh Kalmadi said here
on Monday.
Talking to reporters after he was re-elected unopposed for the
third straight time as the AAA chief, Kalmadi said he would do
everything to promote athletics in India.
"My re-election will definitely help promotion of
athletics in India," he said.
On the future athletics events in India, Kalmadi said,
"Pune has been allotted a Grand Prix in June and we would have
an Asian All Star meet in Delhi on August 29-30, which will be
a test event for the 2010 Commonwealth Games.
"Besides, Chennai or Bangalore will host the Junior Asian
Athletics Championship in 2012," he added.
Kalmadi said he met International Amateur Athletics
Federation (IAAF) president Lamine Diack during the 18th AAA
general body meeting here and had a fruitful discussion.
"It was a good meeting and we all are excited to support
athletics.
"For starters, we are going to have kid athletics at the
school level," said Kalmadi, also chairman of the 2010
Commonwealth Games Organising Committee.
Kalmadi was elected for another four-year term (2009-13)
at the 18th General Body Meeting of the AAA here.
Kalmadi was first elected in Jakarta in 2008.
Bureau Report