Abhinav Bindra Wins Gold!

How nice it feels to look at the official results and see Abhinav Bindra's name on top. Hop over and have a look at the results of the 10m Air Rifle Final Official Results.

Update (13/08/2008)- This is no attempt to take any credit away from Abhinav Bindra's historic performance but did Abhinav Bindra's father really say this?

Silent killer, as described by his father, he is the one who spotted his son's talent when Abhinav was 5 years old. "He kept a water balloon on our maid's head and began shooting, knowing little that a slight mistake could have proved fatal. But his aim was so perfect that I couldn't think about anything else but make him a pro," says AS Bindra.

There has been a discussion on this on Indiamike too, got somewhat heated at times, but if you know of any links that followed up on this piece of reporting please share it with me.

I wonder what kind of a gun a five year old can be playing with, this could a case of media misquoting the father or the father saying something he didn't mean. But I guess the parents need to shut up and let the lad do the talking, he is much better at it.