Mumbai, Sept. 12 -- Erlend Slokvik, sports director of the Norwegian athletics association, is a former ski-orienteering World Championships medallist. Athletics is the fourth sport he has managed as head coach or sports director in Norway, and he brings up a couple of stats to paint its strides. Down in the grassroots, TINEstafetten, the world's biggest single-day youth relay event for students between class 6 and 9 held in schools across the country, is unique to Norway. "This year, we had over 1,00,000 children running," Slokvik said. At the top among the elite, across all major athletics events from the Olympics of Tokyo in 2021 to Paris in 2024 (including World Championships and European Championships), Norway had 11 athletes bring hom...