Finally - An Olympic gold for India in the Individual Event

The Olympics have begun... This has been labelled the greatest of all show events in this world... And all of us in India have been waiting with bated breath and praying all the while that an Indian wins a gold medal... This has never happened in an Individual Event ever since India started participating in the Modern Olympics... In fact, India has managed only 4 individual medals going into this Olympics... What a turnaround it turned out to be! Abhinav Bindra won India's first ever Individual gold medal in the 10m Air Rifle event... It was a very thrilling moment for all the Indians...

After having qualified for the finals in 7th place, Abhinav decided to show is prowess in the Finals... All through the finals, he hit scores of 10 or over... This helped him move to 3rd place after 5 shots in the final... Consistent shots moved him to the second spot... With just one shot remaining, the scores were tied between him and the leader throughout the event thus far, Hakinen... And Abhinav performed admirably under pressure shooting a near perfect 10.8 while the Finn wilted under pressure to shoot 9.7 and in the process lose the second place to the defending champion from China...

This has been a dream start for India and I hope that this would open up the floodgates and India would manage to win more medals in this year's Olympics...

Am back...

I have been idle for the last 3 months. Although, there were a lot of things that interested me and had my thoughts stirring, I was unable to put them all to paper and post the blogs... Now, I feel that it is high time that I start writing my blog again... So, hold on to your breath... And keep looking at this space for more.... With a lot of exciting events lined up in the days to come, I am looking forward to blogging actively... See you all soon....