India finally gets Olympic gold

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Today’s headlines say it all: �India’s Goldfinger,� �At Last.� Reaction on the streets of New Delhi were just as enthusiastic. The man at the center of all the attention, Abhinav Bindra, seems unfazed by it all. Abhinav Bindra’s father says he has made his country proud. The father supported his son in a big way, and funded trips to Germany to let him practice, for example.

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