TIOL-DDT 928 · Tuesday, 12 August 2008 · story 5 of 5

India strikes Gold at the Olympics

Legal Corner Icon — the image was hosted by the publisher and was not captured.It is Independence Day Celebrations time and what better way to celebrate it than see the Indian Flag displayed at the Olympics awards ceremony?

From the TV pictures, it looked as if they had the wrong flag. The saffron in the Indian flag looked very yellowish.

Well, Netizens should bear with the trivia that is sometimes dished out in DDT. But we couldn’t stop this one from trickling into DDT because it is a historical event. Abhinav Bhindra , the man with the golden gun has won a Gold Medal. This was the first time in the History of Olympics that an individual gold medal was won by an Indian. Hitherto, India has won altogether eight gold medals and each of those medals was for a team event i.e. Hockey and the last time Indians won a gold medal was in the 1980 Moscow Olympics. This is truly historical because a nation of one billion people has won just one individual gold medal in the history of Olympics.