Incheon: Abhinav Bindra is one of those handful of sportsmen, particularly outside of cricket, whose every word, every movement and every success and failure is minutely scrutinised. Little wonder then as Bindra, who turns 32 in five days time, turned up for what he had 'tweeted' was his last competition as a 'professional', there was much debate on what he actually meant.


Abhinav Bindra acknowledges the crowd after his bronze-medal winning performance in the 10m air rifle competition yesterday. Pics/PTI 

More than what was clearly going to be his last Asian Games appearance – he also competed at the 2002 and 2010 Games – everybody was curious to know what he meant by tweeting that this would his last Games as a professional, and that he would be a hobby shooter thereafter, who would still try to qualify for Rio Olympics in 2016.