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For a nation of 1.4 billion people and counting, India’s record at the Olympics is strangely lacklustre. More than 100 years since first fielding a team at the quadrennial spectacular, Indian athletes have come back from the Games with gold just ten times, with an overall tally of 35 medals putting the nation behind Estonia (population: 1.35 million) on the all-time table.
