World Athletics decision to hand Asia two world indoors 'strategic' - Coe

The city of Bhubaneswar in Odisha state in eastern India will host the world indoors in 2028, while the Kazakh capital Astana was chosen for the 2030 edition. Coe, speaking to reporters at the ongoing world indoors in Torun, Poland, justified the decision to move the global three-day competition to Asia as an opportunity to "get more than a toe hold" in important markets. "First of all, Asia is a very large continent and if you really want to define it, we're talking from Qatar to the Philippines," he said.