Abhinav Bindra brings Olympic gold to India

A gold medal at last! And in an individual event no less. Congrats, Abhinav Bindra for winning the top honors in the 10m air rifle shooting. India’s last gold was in the (largely-boycotted) Moscow 1980 Olympics in hockey. Bindra’s success should prove that in spite of the lack of supporting infrastructure, Indian sportspersons can compete with the best so just imagine if they got the support and attention. I just hope that bureaucrats and sports administration officials like Kalamadi do not take credit or hog the limelight when Bindra returns (remember the T20 World Cup winning team feliciation?) Abhinav, his coach, and family deserve all the credit. Let us wish his success rubs off on others [photo source: Gaoxing Singh].

“Abhinav Bindra brings Olympic gold to India” [Short URL: http://www.ipatrix.com/?p=2665] was published Monday, August 11th, 2008 at 10:42 am by Patrix, filed under India, Sports, and tagged as India, olympics, Sports. Both comments and linkbacks are closed.

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ferret
It’s great that we’ve finally got a well deserved gold at the olympics for india.
But when you say this
>>And in an individual event no less.
I think a team event should be rated higher than an individual event. Training the whole team in the way that Bindra did his training would have been a much tuffer task, and on D-day having the whole team performing their best takes a lot more than in an individual event.
And generally speaking, a team sport is what encompasses the whole meaning of sport, for me.
http://www.ipatrix.com Patrix
ferret, I admit that a team medal is rated higher in my lens too. I said that because it was India’s first individual gold. But then in the Olympics, the individual events have always held preeminence.
http://solitarycynic.blogspot.com/ A Cynic in Wonderland
And now he is back in India and the homecoming is as expected, over the top. Wish they spent that much energy in actually setting up the infrastructure to promote sports

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