Abhinav Bindra talks about the one thing he would want to rewrite in his historic career as a sportsman if he had the option
Abhinav Bindra, India's first individual Olympic gold medallist Image: Mexy XavierÂ
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Abhinav Bindra, the first Indian to ever win an Olympic gold in a solo sport, single-mindedly devoted twenty-two years of his life to follow his passion and give it his best shot despite many challenges. In a wide-ranging conversation on Forbes India Pathbreakers, the ace-shooter talks about his untiring quest for perfection and his indomitable spirit to bounce back and persevere despite all odds. Â
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“I’ve achieved many goals in my sports career. I’ve won an Olympic game, a World Championship gold medal, Asian games medals, Commonwealth games, and several others. But if you ask me the question, did I achieve my potential, then the answer is no. I fell very short of achieving my fullest potential and now that I have the luxury of hindsight and the ability to look back, I would attribute that failure to the lack of balance that I had as an athlete,” Bindra says.
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