Mumbai, April 7 -- A few moments after Rudrankksh Patil was pipped by Sandeep Singh in the Paris Olympics selection trials in Bhopal last year, Patil walked around wearing a smile.
For a world champion and former world No.1 rifle shooter who was favoured to take one of the two spots on offer from the trials, missing the Olympics bus entirely would have been a gut punching blow. Even if it was, the youngster didn't show, shrugging it off as a stumbling block deep into the Olympic cycle.
Overcoming that setback, Patil has kicked off a fresh Olympic cycle in fine fashion, winning the 10m air rifle gold at the ISSF World Cup in Buenos Aires on Sunday.
The familiar smile while flaunting his medal on the podium was back, so was the high-qualit...