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India: Self-made Olympic pride

Monday, August 18th, 2008 @ 11:34 UTC

by Rezwan

Countries:: India
Topics:: Ideas, Sport
Languages:: English
Special:: Olympics

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This post is from our coverage of the 2008 Olympics in Beijing China, curated by John Kennedy and sponsored by Reuters. · All posts

Amit Varma of Indian Uncut reveals that Indian Olympics gold medal winner Abhinav Bindra got more support from his industrialist father than the Government for the preparations. He argues that instead of the Chinese state sponsored and controlled sports model, India should “lift enough people to prosperity, and the sporting laurels will roll in”.

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