India's first individual Olympic gold...finally!

My early morning trip to work got started with a pleasant news - that Abhinav Bindra, one of our rifle shooters, bagged the first individual gold in the 108 years of India's tryst with Olympics. Finally! Someone! Our nation of a billion people now has someone to look up to. Anyways, I should not be talking all this. Sports as a profession is a tabooland for most of us Indians. We are trained to man the "Backoffice" of the world. And you can't be caught playing at work, can you? Well, there are exceptions - Rajyavardhan Rathore got us an individual Bronze last Olympics. So what if Jamaica's got more medals than us? Does Jamaica have the most expensive sporting federation on their soil (our Board of Control for Cricket in India)? Who cares about performance -who cares if we are a bunch of underachievers when it comes to team games? For us, it takes only one guy to do something - add more (even two doesn't help - look at our Tennis wunderkinds - Paes and Bhupathi), and we have squabbles, politics, tons of endorsements, aspirations to become cine-stars - anything but being good sportspersons. Our brightest stars are solo achievers - Vishy Anand in Chess (can't we have an Olympics Chess event ever??), Rathore and now Abhinav in rifle shooting, Sania in Tennis, Padukone in Badminton, Ramesh Krishnan in Tennis...(can't count many there too...ah well!!)..Hey, when would Age Of Empires get into the Olympics??