India’s only Olympic Games gold medalist Abhinav Bindra on Monday announced that he will retire from professional shooting after his 10m air rifle event at the 2014 Asian Games here on Tuesday. Bindra also announced his retirement from the Commonwealth Games in the similar fashion.
“Tomorrow will mark the end of my professional shooting life! I will however still shoot , compete as a hobby shooter training twice a week,” Bindra tweeted. But he will still try to compete at the 2016 Rio Olympics. “And yes I will still try to be at Rio and my bio is now most appropriate! Great times and am sure there will be a few more!” he added.