gold coast sports minister rajyavardhan singh rathore on sunday lauded the indian athletes performance at the commonwealth games and promised to build on the success in gold coast keeping the 2024 and 2028 olympics in mindindia finished third in the medals tally courtesy 66 medals including 26 gold 20 silver and as many bronzethe intensity and passion shown by the athletes has made the entire nation proud said rathore in a video messagewhile we won a lot of medals in disciplines which have been our traditional stronghold it was even more heartening to find our athletes doing well in sports where we have not won too many medals the 2004 olympics silver medallist saidrathore also congratulated the medalists who emerged from governments pet project khelo india school games kisgteenagers manu bhaker and anish bhanwala who won shooting gold medals in the gold coast games competed in the kisgwe are planning to put a professional system in place there is a lot of potential in our youth and i see india winning a bagful of medals at the 2024 and 2028 olympics he addedindia a powerhouse at the commonwealth level has a lot of catching up to do at the olympic level the country won just two medals at the 2016 rio olympics and till date shooter abhinav bindra is indias sole individual gold medalist at the summer games