Olympics 2024: After drawing blank in Rio and Tokyo, shooting fraternity cautiously happy post Paris
shooting contingent's biggest-ever medal haul at the Olympics here, after drawing a blank in the previous two editions in Rio de Janeiro and Tokyo, definitely calls for celebration but the fraternity is treading cautiously with an eye already on the 2028 Los Angeles Games. All of India's medal at the Paris Olympics have come via shooting thus far and there is a slight possibility of increasing the medal count to four by the time the competition ends on Monday.
The squad has also overcome the mental barrier that prevented Manu Bhaker and Co from excelling on the biggest stage.
The highlight of the campaign has been Manu's two medals, the second one shared with Sarabjot Singh in the 10m pistol mixed team.
Fielding a record 21-member team at the Chateauroux Shooting Range, India has made six finals, including two near medal misses in 10m air rifle with Arjun Babuta finishing a painful fourth and Manu missing out on a third medal by the narrowest of margins in 25m pistol on Saturday.
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The training and competition schedule was robust and held in multiple countries. The team and personal coaches kept their differences aside for a change to work on the common objective of producing medallists at the mega event.
There have been some disappointments too with the biggest one coming in the women's 50m rifle three positions as Sift Kaur Samra and Anjum Moudgil failed to reach the final.
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