Abhinav Bindra Receives Olympic Order, Becomes First Indian To Win Prestigious Award
This esteemed award, the highest accolade from the International Olympic Committee (IOC) for outstanding service, makes Bindra the first Indian to receive it.
New Delhi: Abhinav Bindra, the trailblazing Indian who clinched the first grownup Olympic medal for his u . s . a ., has been honored with the celebrated Olympic Order for his best contributions to the Olympic circulate.
This esteemed award, the more desirable accolade from the World Olympic Committee (IOC) for great service, makes Bindra the first Indian to be given it. As a member of the IOC Athletes Money, his fulfillment has been celebrated by for that reason of many well-liked figures.
The resolution to award Bindra became made for the period of the IOC Government Board assembly in Paris on Saturday, and the recordsdata has been extensively shared for the period of social media by for that reason of extraordinarily an excellent deal of presidency-linked handles.
“It be with great pleasure that I inform you that the IOC Government Board has lately determined to award you with the Olympic Order in your great functions and products to the Olympic November,” IOC President Thomas Bach educated Bindra in a letter on Monday.
Bindra became educated that the award ceremony will turn up for the period of the 142nd IOC Session to be held in Paris on August 10.
“May I take this risk to address you my most central congratulations on this award. Seeking out ahead to seeing you in Paris,” Bach recounted within the letter dated July 20, 2024.
Among people who wrote congratulatory messages to Bindra became Minister for Childhood Affairs and Physical games concerns to do, Mansukh Mandaviya.
“Congratulations to Abhinav Bindra on being awarded the Olympic Order for great contributions to the Olympic Movement! His fulfillment fills us with satisfaction and is truely competently-deserved. His title on my own has impressed generations of shooters and Olympians,” Mandaviya, who is likewise Minister of Labour and Employment, wrote in a post on X, formerly Twitter.
Congratulations to @Abhinav_Bindra on being awarded the Olympic Order for great contributions to the Olympic Movement!
His fulfillment fills us with satisfaction and is truely competently-deserved.
His title on my own has impressed generations of shooters and Olympians. p.c.twitter.com/w8i6Ykr09X
— Dr Mansukh Mandaviya (@mansukhmandviya) July 22, 2024
The dependableremember cope with of IPL side Lucknow Assorted Giants additionally congratulated Bindra on getting the award.
“Historic past-maker, for the period of once extra, Congratulations Abhinav Bindra,” recounted the post on X, which became accompanied by for that reason of a photograph of Bindra when he won India’s maiden grownup gold medal in adult males’s 10m air rifle in Beijing 2008.
Historic past-maker, for the period of once extra
Congratulations Abhinav Bindra p.c.twitter.com/MZfuXH2LiT
— Lucknow Assorted Giants (@LucknowIPL) July 22, 2024
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