Abhinav Bindra,India's lone individual Olympic gold medallist, on Sunday officially bid adieu to the shooting career, saying 'it is time to move on and hand over the baton to the younger generation.'
Squeezing the lemons of the loss at the recent Olympics, he is all set to venture into the Business world by investing in sports science. In an interview he said, “I am interested in sports, but then sports alone is not going to give me much money. So, I am involved in certain things to do with health and fitness. I am also looking at medical science as well as something on the high-performance side of the sports science.”
President of NRAI,Raninder Singh, saying that “It was just a small gesture from the side.”Felicitated the Indian ace shooter. Bindra also returned the gesture saying it had the potential to become a model sports federation.
Commenting more about the importance of sports science, he said, “The role of the sports science is incredibly important in a modern-day sport. You can't achieve success without it. I don't think the whole concept exists in our country.”
As a role model who ruled the world of shooting for more than a decade and now moving on to the betterment of the sport, we wish him loads of good look for his new venture.