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Safe Sport programme for athletes and coaches opens at Rashtriya Raksha University

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A Foundation Programme on Safe Sport and athlete safeguarding opened at Rashtriya Raksha University (RRU) in Gandhinagar on 21 October 2026, run by the Bharat Centre of Olympic Research and Education (BCORE), PIB said on 24 October.

Safe Sport: Participants at the Foundation Programme on Safe Sport and Athlete Safeguarding at RRU, Gandhinagar
Participants at the Foundation Programme on Safe Sport and Athlete Safeguarding at RRU, Gandhinagar Photo: PIB (Government of India, free to use with credit).

What the Safe Sport programme covers

BCORE works under the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Olympic Studies Centre at RRU, which the release describes as an institution of national importance and India’s pioneering national security and police university. The residential programme ran for three days, from 21 to 23 October. It brought together athletes, coaches and sports administrators nominated by National Sports Federations, the Central Armed Police Forces, a SAI centre and high-performance academies, along with researchers, safeguarding professionals and sports medicine experts. According to the release, Safe Sport and athlete safeguarding have been declared one of the IOC’s key strategic priorities, and the programme aims to bring that global priority into India’s sporting culture through awareness, international knowledge exchange and hands-on learning. The opening ceremony also introduced BCORE’s work in anti-doping education and research, Olympic event hosting, governance and social legacy.

Key Facts

  • Programme: Safe Sport and athlete safeguarding (foundation level)
  • Organiser: BCORE, Rashtriya Raksha University
  • Dates: 21-23 October 2026, Gandhinagar
  • MoU: CEROUEN, University of Rouen Normandy, France
  • Book released: Olympic Intersections (Routledge)

Speakers on athlete safeguarding

BCORE Director Dr Utsav Chaware introduced the programme and its objectives. The keynote address on Olympism, athlete-centred sport and the Safe Sport movement was given by Rose Mae, Safe Sport advocate and co-founder of Safe Sport Philippines. A video message came from Dr Charilaos Tsolakis, President of the International Olympic Academy in Greece. Experts leading sessions included sport psychologist Sanjana Kiran and sports medicine specialist Dr Khyati, with Indian triathlete Pragnya Mohan, Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports Joint Secretary Kunal, and Minerva Academy founder Ranjith Bajaj among those listed for later days. Participants came from the ITBP, CRPF, CISF, SSB, the Army Sports Institute, SAI centres in Imphal and Gandhinagar and several federations. Representatives of GoSports Foundation, Reliance Foundation Sports and academies in badminton, gymnastics, table tennis and kho kho also took part, along with the Vijayi Bharat Foundation team led by its High Performance Director Eric Hollingsworth.

MoU with a French Olympic research centre

The opening ceremony marked two milestones for BCORE, the release said. It signed a memorandum of understanding with the Olympic Studies and Research Center (CEROUEN) of the University of Rouen Normandy in France. PIB said the MoU covers a joint PhD arrangement. BCORE also released the book Olympic Intersections: The Games at the Crossroads of Global Research, published by Routledge. Researchers and sport science professionals from IIT Bombay, BRAC University in Bangladesh and other institutions attended, giving the event a regional and international flavour. The release presented the programme as a step towards building safeguarding knowledge among the people who run Indian sport day to day.

Why It Matters: Safeguarding training helps protect young athletes from abuse and harassment, a priority the IOC wants every national sports system to adopt.

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Source: PIB Ahmedabad, Ministry of Home Affairs, 24 Oct 2026 · Rashtriya Raksha University

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