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Rohit, Brijnath

 
9789352645756: A Shot at History:: My Obsessive Journey to Olympic Gold and Beyond
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 9352645758 ISBN 13 : 9789352645756
Editeur : HarperCollins Publishers India, 2017

Synopsis

Abhinav Bindra s journey to become the first Indian to win an individual Olympic gold, and the first Indian to win a World Championship gold in shooting, is an example of a single-minded quest for perfection. Shattered by his failure at the 2004 Athens Olympics when a gold medal seemed imminent, he changed as a shooter: he became an athlete bent on redemption, a scientist who would try anything to win at the Beijing Olympics in 2008. His victory was not just a personal one, it broke a sporting barrier that had haunted a nation for a century. This revised edition brings the story up to date, including what happened at the Rio Olympics in 2016, where he narrowly missed being among the medals. Bindra also reveals, for the first time, how he started to suffer from epileptic seizures while in the middle of preparing for Rio, and how he overcame this hurdle. Closely involved in telling this remarkable story is sportswriter Rohit Brijnath, who gets into Bindra's mind to help produce one of the finest autobiographies written yet of an Indian sportsman.

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À propos de l'auteur

Abhinav Bindra is India's first and only individual Olympic gold medallist and also the first Indian to win a world championship gold. He has won seventy-eight international medals in the last fifteen years. Rohit Brijnath has written on sport for 25 years for such publications as Sportsworld, India Today, The Hindu, The Mint, BBC-South Asia website and The Age. He is currently a senior correspondent with The Straits Times in Singapore. This is his first book.

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Éditeur
HarperCollins Publishers India
Date d'édition
2017
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
9352645758
ISBN 13 
9789352645756
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
292
Coordonnées du fabricant
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