Abhinav Bindra
Abhinav Bindra won the first individual gold medal for India in 10 m Air Rifle today. This is the first time an Indian has won a Gold Medal at Olympics. This gold comes after a long wait of 28 years. Last time we won a gold, it was in the Men’s Field Hockey (This time around our team dint even qualify BTW).

If I say I know a lot about him and put things from all over the web, it would be unfair. To be honest I dont know a lot about the man (isn’t this a huge paradox, we know every small detail about all cricketers and dont even know the full names of other sportsmen?). All I know is that this is monumental and hope we win mode medals. Will update this post with more things once I get over the shock and excitement.

If someone has pics and vids from the award ceremony, please share links.

UPDATE

  • A friend says “ashamed to be be proud of one medal”. I think he couldn’t have been more correct. More on this later.

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