# India plans national sports medicine framework for 2036 Olympics 2026-08-16T22:16:50+00:00 | Sports | Indian Opinion Desk Corroboration: 1 independent outlet (2 source reports) India plans to build a national sports medicine framework that will shift athlete care from a fragmented, injury-driven system to a preventive model, as the country prepares for a possible 2036 Olympic Games bid, the Economic Times reports. The proposed framework is expected to standardise injury screening, diagnosis, rehabilitation and return-to-play protocols while linking medical institutions with athlete training programmes and creating a national repository on sports injury data, people aware of the deliberations told ET. The government is considering a phased rollout by 2028, and the proposal could find a mention in the union budget 2027-28. NITI Aayog last week convened a meeting of the expert group on sports science under M Srinivas to deliberate on the ecosystem. ## Coverage - economictimes.indiatimes.com - health.economictimes.indiatimes.com This story was synthesised by AI from the 2 sources linked above. Updated: this story now draws on 2 sources. Last updated 2026-08-17T08:46:16+00:00. Tags: 2036 Olympics, Indian Council of Medical Research, NITI Aayog, Sports Authority of India Canonical: https://indianopinion.org/india-plans-national-sports-medicine-framework-for-2036-olympics-bid/ License: Summary and commentary (c) Indian Opinion, reusable with attribution. Facts belong to the linked sources. Cite: https://indianopinion.org/india-plans-national-sports-medicine-framework-for-2036-olympics-bid/#story-in-brief How this brief was made: an AI model read the reports linked above and wrote this summary and analysis, which were published automatically. Published briefs are sampled every hour by an automated quality check; the editor verifies its findings and approves corrections, and corrected briefs carry a dated correction line. Stance labels are editorial classifications of how each outlet framed this story, assigned by the same model, not ratings of the outlets. We do no original reporting. Methodology: https://indianopinion.org/ai-use-policy/