Golden Moment for India!!Cheers [:-)]

Abhinav Bindra has now undoubtedly become the latest sensation of India. He has now become the first Indian to win a gold at the Olympics after a 28 long years and he has certainly made every Indian proud of his extraordinary feat.He claimed the 10m Air Rifle Shooting title held in Beijing today.This marks the first medal count for India in the current edition of Olympics.

Bindra,25 after some hard n thrilling moments in the shooting finals in the Olympics just got past Athens Games champion Zhu Qinan of China and Henri Hakkinen of Finland by a narrow margin. Bindra finished with a combined tally of 700.5 followed by Zhu with 699.7 points and Hakkinen with 699.4 points.Bindra finished off with 104.5 in the 10 shot final as he sailed through the final round sharing same points with Hakkinen with 689.7 points.In the deciding shot bindra held his nerves and scored a much fair 10.8 points while others managed only 10.5 and 9.8 points.That moment is to be marked in golden words in the Indian history of sports.At the same time he became the first Indian individual to win an Olympic gold.The last time India won gold in Olympics was in 1980 in Hockey.

Abhinav Bindra,if u remember had already clinched the World Shooting Championship in July,2006.He was eventually the first to win a gold in a world championship too.Abhinav Bindra had already been creating many records right from the junior category in many world level championships and common wealth games.Bindra actually hails from an affluent family in Chandigarh started shooting at his young ages and at 15 he became the youngest participant in common wealth games.He then created some notable records in the next few years in some events.And now he has reached all time high with his sparkling performance.He sure has made the dream of a billion a reality.

When asked about their son’s record at the Olympics his parents AS Bindra and Babli had their faces beaming with glow,joy and happiness and his father Bindra Sr said “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,".

Wishes are pouring in for him from all around the world from sportsmen,analysts and surfers through mails and dedicated wishing programmes set up news agencies.Certainly this moment is to be relished now and to be cherished forever.We here ,thenewsteller blog team congratulate Abhinav for providing this high voltage moment and we wish him many more laurels in the near future.We also hope that some more medals come India’s way through the rest of this Beijing Olympics edition.

We again thank him for making a billion proud.Kudos Abhinav!

Catch you all soon through our next post.