Incheon, South Korea: The cricket-crazy country of India has been improving in Olympic sports due to more exposure in international competition. Though it still has only one individual Olympic gold medal winner -- shooter Abhinav Bindra -- India can boast several leading contenders when it comes to the Asian Games.
Here are things to know about India's squad at Incheon:
MAGNIFICENT MARY:
The India contingent contains a five-time world champion who is the subject of a feature film. The movie on 31-year-old M.C. Mary Kom, who won a boxing bronze medal at the London Olympics, was released earlier this month with Bollywood star Priyanka Chopra in the leading role. Mary Kom is a widely-known figure back home and was one of the brand ambassadors for the 2010 Commonwealth Games in India despite women's boxing not being part of the program there. She was described by world boxing body AIBA as "Magnificent Mary" after her fourth successive title in 2008, and the name has stuck.
