Mehuli Ghosh — shooting for the stars and Olympic glory

It is easy to lose your way inside the lush green, 2,300-acre sprawling campus of the University of Hyderabad. With a humble layer of verdigris eating into the painted letters, it is easier to miss the dilapidated metal signboard pointing towards the Telangana Rifle Association Shooting Range, roughly a kilometre from the main gate.

Housed within this very complex is Olympic medallist Gagan Narang’s shooting academy, Gun For Glory (GFG), its entrance something straight out of the sets of the horror flick, Crimson Peak.

THE GIST

Although the quota is in the bag Mehuli can’t be complacent, for the Paris berth belongs to the country and not the athlete

The newly introduced Olympic Selection Trials make matters a bit more complicated

The mean figure of the top three scores in OSTs will be considered towards the Final Average Score, which will determine qualification

Simply put, a shooter with a quota will have a head start of a mere 0.33 points per trial