The winners  never look back.

Smacking success: Vijay Kumar celebrates after winning silver medal in the men’s 25m rapid fire pistol shooting event at the 2012 Olympic Games in London on Friday.  Vijay had qualified with a score of 585 that had placed him fourth among the six finalists. He had shot 293 on the first day of the competition, and followed that with a 292 in the morning, with scores of 98, 97 and 97 in the 8, 6 and 4-second series respectively.Scaling Olympian heights, without making substantial claims in the world championship or the Asian Games, has revealed his strong nerves.

It was an anticlimax that Vijay shot only two when fighting for the gold, but even a five would not have helped his cause at that stage, as Pupo, in his fourth Olympics, had ensured the best medal by shooting four.

Vijay had also asserted his versatility in the last Asian Games when he won the individual bronze medals in air pistol and centre-fire pistol. He had won three gold medals in the Commonwealth Games at New Delhi.