After football, RFYS eyes multi city athletics tournament

KOCHI: The Reliance Foundation Youth Sports (RFYS) plans to start an athletics competition on the lines of its national football championship for juniors, which got underway here on Wednesday.

The athletics competition, likely to start by end September, will be held in 11 disciplines and Delhi, Bengaluru, Chennai, Kozhikode, Kolkata and Guwahati are among the cities which will host the event. 

RFYS chairperson Nita Ambani, while speaking at the inaugural match of the second edition of the football tourney on Wednesday, said, “Last year, we reached out to 1,900 institutions for the RFYS football, this year our aim is to touch 3,000 institutions which means more children will be playing sports."