Indian sharpshooter Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore was featured among Time magazine’s 100 olympic athletes to watch. [Time]

Will Rathore be on target?
img: via Time

In fact, the entire contingent of sharp shooters have high hopes going into the games. [IBN]

Headed by Rathore, the team consists of Samresh Jung who was pretty successful at the Commonwealth games, former shooting champ Anjali Bhagwat and another Commonwealth games success story, Avneet Kaur Sidhu.

Rathore and another shooter Abhinav Bindra will also be part of a blogging initiative by Lenovo and will be frequently blogging during the games. [TOI]

Of course, if and when we locate these blogs, we @ Über Desi will keep you updated.

Will the shooting contingent hit or miss? Stay tuned.

In the Desi @ Olympics section, we’ve featured 3 stories on athletes of Indian/South Asian origin till date – Raj Bhavsar, the Indian boxing team and the Indian sharpshooters (current post). Besides the tennis pair of Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi, are there any other Indian/South Asian origin athletes we need to watch out for? Have you come across any compelling stories on desi olympic athletes online? Please share them with us to share with all using the Tipster.

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