Bindra on his part asked De to be proud of the Indian athletes and Olympians who are “perusing human excellence against the whole world”. And as IndianExpress.com pondered, all is not lost for India at the Rio 2016 Olympics. Abhinav Bindra came agonisingly close to winning India their first medal at Rio 2016 Olympics but lost by a margin of 0.5 in the shoot out no less. And one of them is author Shobhaa De who took to Twitter to post a harsh and stinging message for the Indian Olympians that irked Bindra – gold medallist from 2008 Beijing Olympics and former India hockey player Viren Rasquinha amongst the many. De harshly tweeted, “Goal of Team India at the Olympics: Rio jao.

Source: Indian Express August 09, 2016 04:34 UTC