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Led by Olympic champion Abhinav Bindra and Gagan Commonwealth Games hero Naranjo, Freebooters look to continue their amazing form TAG in preparation for Asian Games competition starts in Guangzhou on Saturday.
Indian shooters had set the fire power to the GTC by winning 14 gold medals, but the road is not so good here that the field is really tough customers.However, the shooters are expected to win the first medal for the country at the Olympics, the sporting event after the Olympics more important.
Bindra face to face, Zhu Quinan, the man he beat to win the gold medal in Olympic 10 m air rifle gold at Beijing two years ago, when Nrnk would also be a competitor in the same sector. Bindra and the 2004 Athens Olympics, Quinan champion, who beat India last month for gold CWG 10m air rifle, should provide the fireworks for the first day of shooting Aoti Shooting Hall.
Indian duo aim would be to stop buying Chinese shooters favorite house of gold, if the fifth consecutive time, but the challenge would be quite hard. Fray is also Chinese Cao Yifei, winner of the 2010 World Cup in Sydney, so that competition can be hot one.
The 27-year-old Narang, who stole the thunder from Bindra at the CWG with a four-gold haul, is going into the contest on a high while Bindra has gone off the boil a bit after becoming India's first Olympic individual champion two years ago.
Narang is also in the running to pick up medals in the team competition in the 10m air rifle that will be held concurrently, with Bindra and Sanjeev Rajput being the other team members.
Narang would be eager to attain the gold in these Games after picking up three bronze medals in rifle competitions in Doha, Qatar four years ago.He had finished fifth in the air rifle event then but his recent run puts him as among the title-favourites.
