Among many other things, Abhinav Bindra vividly recalls one change that the 2010 Commonwealth Games rushed in.

“Before 2010,” begins the former rifle shooter who won India’s first individual Olympic gold in 2008, “there used to be very small and short training camps. But before the Commonwealth Games, there were these long camps, ammunition was made available… So, that was a significant change in strategy, which was seen and felt on the ground and felt by athletes because they suddenly had this opportunity to be in this organised training camp sort of environment for a long period of time.”

Its impact was seen by the time the Games ended — shooters won 30 out of the 101 medals India won, the most in a single edition of the CWG. Two years later, at the London Olympics, two Indian shooters

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