{"id":6190,"date":"2012-05-16T13:01:32","date_gmt":"2012-05-16T13:01:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=6190"},"modified":"2012-05-16T13:01:32","modified_gmt":"2012-05-16T13:01:32","slug":"mission-olympics-top-5-medal-prospects-for-india-in-london-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=6190","title":{"rendered":"Mission Olympics: Top 5 medal prospects for India in 2012 Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-6189\" src=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/ronjansodhi.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Ronjan Sodhi\" width=\"290\" height=\"250\" style=\"float: left; margin: 6px;\" \/>Come  this July and top Indian athletes would be vying to keep the country\u2019s  flag fluttering high at the biggest Sporting event of the World \u201cThe  Olympics.\u201d The mega event which is scheduled to happen in London from  July from 27th July 2012 till 12th August would see a fierce Indian  challenge. India would be fielding a strong contingent of over 60  athletes and the chances of winning medals looks better than ever.<\/p>\n<p>Here are five athletes to watch out for who in all likelihood is expected to bring glory to India:<\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/>Ronjan Sodhi (shooting): <\/strong>He is the first Indian shooter to  have defended a World title ever. Two times World Champion Ronjan Sodhi  is currently ranked three in the World in double trap. He failed to  qualify for the Beijing Olympics 2008 and since then have been  performing exceptionally well. He won two World Cups, gold in Asian  Games 2010 amongst others. He would be raring to go at London and  definitely looks a bright medal prospect for the country.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Abhinav Bindra (shooting): <\/strong>Abhinav Bindra created history in  the Beijing Olympics 2008 after he became the first Indian to win an  individual gold medal. Bindra, whose expertise is 10 m air rifle, has  won many a laurels internationally and the country would be banking on  him to repeat his Beijing performance in London.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Saina Nehwal (badminton): <\/strong>Saina Nehwal, fifth ranked badminton  player in the World, is one of the athletes of the contingent on whom  the country would count on. She would spearhead the Indian badminton  challenge in the Olympics. Gold medallist at the 2010 Delhi Commonwealth  Games, she was going through a bad phase in her career but jumped to  form right time after she defended her Swiss Open title in February this  year. She is upbeat about her game and most importantly she has been  able to break the Chinese code before the Olympics and now she can face  Chinese shuttlers, her biggest rivals to glory with much more positive  and confident note.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-4142\" src=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/vijender-singh.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Vijender Singh\" width=\"250\" height=\"157\" style=\"float: left; margin: 6px;\" \/><strong>Vijender Singh (boxing): <\/strong>He won the bronze medal in the  Beijing Olympics and then backed it with bronze at the 2010 Commonwealth  Games bronze and Gold at the 2010 Asian Games in Guangzhou. He did go  through a slump in his career but he kept his mind calm and worked  endlessly towards his endeavor. His resiliency and experience would come  handy in the London.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sushil Kumar (wrestling): <\/strong>He has won the bronze medal in the  66kgs freestyle wrestling in 2008 Beijing Olympics and is upbeat that he  would better his performance this time around. He is the only wrestler  to have ever won the World Championship and the tempo would be on his  side as he qualified for the Olympics just in time with a gold medal  performance at the qualifying event. So he would enter Olympics after  winning a gold medal at an international tournament which would be of  great help. And moreover his experience and hunger to excel would be of  immense help to him in the Olympics.<\/p>\n<p><strong>By Samikshan Dutta Choudhury<br \/>Indian Sports News<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-6189\" src=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/ronjansodhi.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Ronjan Sodhi\" width=\"290\" height=\"250\" style=\"float: left; margin: 6px;\" \/>Come  this July and top Indian athletes would be vying to keep the country\u2019s  flag fluttering high at the biggest Sporting event of the World \u201cThe  Olympics.\u201d The mega event which is scheduled to happen in London from  July from 27th July 2012 till 12th August would see a fierce Indian  challenge. India would be fielding a strong contingent of over 60  athletes and the chances of winning medals looks better than ever.<\/p>\n<p>Here are five athletes to watch out for who in all likelihood is expected to bring glory to India:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6189,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[304,280,597,925,656,822],"class_list":["post-6190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-featured-news","tag-abhinav-bindra","tag-london-olympics","tag-ronjan-sodhi","tag-saina-nehwal","tag-sushil-kumar","tag-vijender-singh"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Mission Olympics: Top 5 medal prospects for India in 2012 Games - IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News &amp; Sports Blogs of Cricket, Hockey, Golf, Football, Tennis &amp; Other Sports<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=6190\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Mission Olympics: Top 5 medal prospects for India in 2012 Games - IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News &amp; Sports Blogs of Cricket, Hockey, Golf, Football, Tennis &amp; Other Sports\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Come this July and top Indian athletes would be vying to keep the country\u2019s flag fluttering high at the biggest Sporting event of the World \u201cThe Olympics.\u201d The mega event which is scheduled to happen in London from July from 27th July 2012 till 12th August would see a fierce Indian challenge. 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