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The Indian Olympic Story - You don't owe us anything

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         The dust has finally settled on what was an enthraling and relatively successful Olympics for Team India. They managed to better their all-time tally of 6 medals (2 silvers and 4 bronze) in 2012 to 7 medals (1 gold, 2 silver and 4 bronze). Beyond the numbers, it brought together a country of more than 1.3 billion to sit and watch games that most of them had never watched. Every Olympics has unique nature to it where stars are born, and history is created.            I am especially thrilled about the new sports that have been introduced to me during the Olympics i.e. Golf and Fencing. I am sure I'm in the majority among the people who had to Google what was a Birdie and Bogey, and we have Aditi Ashok to thank for it. To be able to stay the course till the last day was incredible. I didn't particularly like Fencing, but the fact Bhavani Devi won her first match was quite pleasing and I hope more youngsters will take a liking to the sport. We've heard about the Hocke