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Abhinav Bindra was honored with Olympic Order by the IOC© AFP
Abhinav Bindra, who was awarded the distinguished Olympic Order by the Worldwide Olympic Committee (IOC) on the 142nd IOC Session on Saturday, has applauded the Indian contingent for its “spirited efficiency” on the Paris Olympics. Following the extremely embellished occasion, India’s first particular person Olympic gold medallist spoke to IANS and shared his ideas on what has been a ‘spirited’ efficiency by the contingent in Paris. “I feel it has been a spirited efficiency. All our athletes have carried out at a excessive degree. We might have six medals to point out on our tally however should you actually go in-depth into performances, now we have by no means had a (Olympic) Video games the place our athletes have been so aggressive throughout disciplines, a lot of them have been near medaling,” Bindra informed IANS.
India’s Paris Olympics marketing campaign formally reached its conclusion on Saturday, however the nation’s medal hopes nonetheless reside on because the Court docket of Arbitration for Sports activities is but to announce their verdict on Vinesh Phogat’s attraction on her disqualification.
The Indian medal tally ended at six, 5 bronze and one silver, with half of these coming from the game that noticed Abhinav Bindra win over 150 particular person medals.
Manu Bhaker, Sarabjot Singh and Swapnil Kusale had been the celebrities of the capturing staff as they received three bronze medals of their respective classes. The veteran went on to admire their ‘incredible’ efficiency.
“It was incredible, now we have gone again with three medals after two blanks in Rio and Tokyo and even the athletes who didn’t win got here shut, a lot of them made the finals. It was very encouraging,” Bindra concluded.
Other than the spectacular efficiency by the Indian shooters, India received a silver medal in Javelin by Neeraj Chopra and two bronze medals from the Indian males’s hockey staff and wrestler Aman Sehrawat within the males’s freestyle wrestling 57 kg class.
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