Why Athlete Safeguarding Is the Load-Bearing Pillar of India's Sporting Ambition Executive Summary India has set itself the goal of becoming a top-tier sporting nation—bidding to host the 2036 Olympic and Paralympic Games and building, through Khelo India and allied schemes, a talent pipeline that reaches children as young as nine. That ambition rests on a strategic bet: that a wide base of young athletes, competing fairly and fearlessly, will compound into world-class perfor