Paris Olympics 2024: Col Kabilan Sai Ashok to become youngest Indian to officiate at Olympics
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Col Kabilan Sai Ashok will become the fourth from the country to officiate at the summer games.
Former international player Col Kabilan Sai Ashok will become the youngest Indian to officiate in the Olympic Games after he was appointed as Referee Judge for Paris Olympics 2024.
The 32 year-old Sai Ashok is only the fourth Indian since 1904 to officiate at the Olympic Games and he is the first Indian to have represented the country as a player and an official at a World Championship.
Sai Ashok, who works as Boxing Administrator at the Army Sports Institute in Pune, is also the first Indian become the President of World Military Boxing Council.
He also holds the record of being the only Indian referee to have been fast tracked from 2STAR to 3STAR status. The last Indian to officiate at the Olympics was back in 2012.
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