India’s First-ever SAI National Centre of Excellence for Mountain Terrain Biking and Bicycle Motocross to be set up in Shimla

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India’s First-ever Sports Authority of India (SAI) National Centre of Excellence(NCOE) for Mountain Terrain Biking and Bicycle Motocross is to be set up in Shimla, Himachal Pradesh.

What is the National Centre of Excellence(NCOE) for Mountain Terrain Biking and Bicycle Motocross?

Setup by: Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports in collaboration with the Youth Services and Sports department of the Government of Himachal Pradesh.

Purpose: To provide world-class training facilities to Indian cyclists in Mountain Terrain Biking and Bicycle Motocross so that they can compete for Olympic medals.

Features: The Centre will be located at an altitude of 2000 meters above sea level. It will have world-class infrastructure, a state-of-art sports science high-performance centre, Olympic-level track and coaches of international repute

Besides, the centre will also have a High-Performance Center for Sports Science with state-of-the-art facilities such as an indoor recovery pool, a biomech lab, strength and conditioning hall, physiotherapy and anthropometry. 

Source: This post is based on an article “India’s First-ever SAI National Centre of Excellence for Mountain Terrain Biking and Bicycle Motocross to be set up in Shimla” published in PIB on 24th March 2022