Olympic Gold: Singh is King
Today Abhinav Bindra won the first individual gold medal ever claimed by any Indian Olympian. He competed in and won the 10M air rifle event this morning in Beijing. We originally posted about him a few days ago here.
Abhivan hails from Chandigarh, Punjab and is the son of Dr. A.S. Bindra and Babli Bindra. Abhivan has been training since childhood as a shooter and is a holder of the Khel Ratan Award, India’s highest athletic honor. This is his second time at the Olympics.
His family had gathered at the Sector 8 Gurdwara in the three days preceding his competition for an Akhand patth sahib thanking Waheguru for his success and praying for a win. After hearing that his son had won the gold, Dr. A.S. Bindra proclaimed:
My son has proved that ‘Singh is King’ in a real sense. He has brought laurels for the whole Sikh community and for the whole nation…
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As an aside – for those of you wondering, as I was, what his name means – it means “quite new”
Also just found a link to Abhinav’s personal blog
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Hey Abhinav…..
Well done, man!!!!!
The whole country is proud of u but i want u 2 carry on dis work n win 1000000’s of gold medals for INDIA
congrats 4 ur success
Bye
Vaibhav
NICE WORK !!!!!!!! GO Singhs!
Great work,
we all feel proud of u..