Congratulate Abhinav Bindra!
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Abhinav Bindra gave India its first gold medal at the Beijing Olympics [Images] when he won the 10 metres air rifle event on Monday morning.
The 25-year-old Indian shooting ace, who qualified in fourth place for the final, finished with an overall score of (596+104.5) 700.5 in a thrilling finale which went right down to the last shot.
Bindra's historic feat makes him India's first individual gold medallist, bettering the silver medal feat of double trap shooter Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore [Images] in Athens 2004.
India's last gold medal at an Olympics came in 1980 when the hockey team emerged triumphant in Moscow
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Congratulations Abhinav!!!!! we are proud of you :thumb:
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This demonstrates that aiming high is always the best approach.
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This demonstrates that aiming high is always the best approach.
LOLe i somehow got the joke. :O miracle of miracles.. :wave:
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LOLe i somehow got the joke. :O miracle of miracles.. :wave:
My naval area itches.
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Michael Phelps has been disqualified and stripped of his 5 golds because the judged found his mother was infact a dolphin.
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zaza has been longing for shakti's return...
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zaza will soon be the favorite.
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India's last gold medal at an Olympics came in 1980 when the hockey team emerged triumphant in Moscow
When I first saw that I thought, wow, that's surprising. I looked it up and the US won the gold in ice hockey in 1980. So it must be field hockey that India won the gold in. In the US when you hear the term hockey you usually think ice hockey but field hockey is popular in some countries.
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field hockey is popular in some countries
No... but it is played.
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Of all the countries on planet earth there might be one in which it is popular. But if not that's ok with me.
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zaza will soon be the favorite.
zaza is everybody's favourite :thumb: LOLe
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No... but it is played.
According to wikipedia field hockey is popular in many countries.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Field_hockey
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In this country, field hockey is mostly played by women in short skirts. I don't know squat about the game, but that's a good enough reason to watch it.
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zaza is everybody's favourite :thumb: LOLe
I think you forgot about someone when writing that post. :wave:
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Hockey is hockey.
Ice hockey is played by Canadians.
There is no field hockey.
Grats to Bindra.
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Field hockey is a popular sport for men, women and children in many countries. Its official name is simply hockey,[1][2] and this is the common name for it in many countries. However, the name field hockey is used in countries where the word hockey is usually reserved for another form of hockey, most commonly ice hockey.
from wikipedia article. If you live in the US you'd want to use the word field before hockey because most people in the US would think you're talking about ice hockey if you just said hockey.
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So the Canadian reference has no rebutal?