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How hard is the road for Indian shooters until Paris 2024?

Indian shooters’ poor performance at the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games will keep reminding us constantly of the great opportunity of winning a handful of medals that went abegging.

A record 15 shooters qualified for the quadrennial showpiece last year but none of them could bring home a medal, extending the drought to nearly nine years – India didn’t win a medal in shooting at 2016 Rio as well.

Come to think of it, the sport earned India its maiden individual silver when double-trap shooter RVS Rathore stood on the podium in 2004 Athens, and four years later rifle shooter Abhinav Bindra did another historic first by clinching the country’s first individual gold in 2008 Beijing. Four years later, pistol shooter Vijay Kumar and rifle marksman Gagan Narang earned silver and a bronze respectively at London.

“Most of the (shooting) events that are there in the 2024 Paris Olympics are there in the Asian Games as well. In fact, there are more shooting events at the Asian Games in Hangzhou than at the Olympics. So, our objective should be to create an atmosphere of more victories, more winnings and more medals coming into the Asian Games,” says Mansher, the four-time Asian Games medallist.

“That is going to create a further positive impact in the athletes’ training to get ready for the Olympics, because winning in the Asian Games, when you go to Paris you are going to feel a little more positive about the outcome there. We have to take Paris as the final goal. We have to build our team up till Paris,” added Mansher.

Things were looking brighter than ever for the sport, but unfortunately things have gone downhill since, with not a single medal at Rio and Tokyo.

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