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Abhinav Bindra s journey to become the first Indian to win an individual Olympic gold, and the first Indian to win a World Championship gold in shooting, is an example of a single-minded quest for perfection. Shattered by his failure at the 2004 Athens Olympics when a gold medal seemed imminent, he changed as a shooter: he became an athlete bent on redemption, a scientist who would try anything to win at the Beijing Olympics in 2008. His victory was not just a personal one, it broke a sporting barrier that had haunted a nation for a century. This revised edition brings the story up to date, including what happened at the Rio Olympics in 2016, where he narrowly missed being among the medals. Bindra also reveals, for the first time, how he started to suffer from epileptic seizures while in the middle of preparing for Rio, and how he overcame this hurdle. Closely involved in telling this remarkable story is sportswriter Rohit Brijnath, who gets into Bindra's mind to help produce one of the finest autobiographies written yet of an Indian sportsman.
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Abhinav Bindra is India s first and only individual Olympic gold medallist and also the first Indian to win a World Championship gold. Born in Dehradun, the thirty-four-old shooter has won over eighty medals in twenty years. His last Olympics was in Rio in 2016, where he finished fourth. Rohit Brijnath has written on sport for thirty years for such publications as Sportsworld, India Today, The Hindu, The Mint, BBC-South Asia website and The Age. He is currently an Assistant Sports Editor with The Straits Times in Singapore. This is his first book.
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- PublisherHarper Sport India
- Publication date2017
- ISBN 10 9352645758
- ISBN 13 9789352645756
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages292
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