In 1985, Balbir Singh Sr had donated his medals and memorabilia to the then SAI Secretary on being told that they would be displayed in a show window at the proposed National Sports Museum. News of the items missing got around only when the International Olympic Committee’s Olympic Museum wanted the Melbourne Games blazer to be a part of the official 2012 London Olympics exhibition where Balbir was the only Indian and the only hockey player chosen among 16 icons across all participants in all disciplines in 116 years of the modern Olympics era. IMAGE: Balbir Singh Sr, who had won gold medals at the London (1948), Helsinki (1952) and Melbourne (1956) Olympics, travelled to Delhi many times with his maternal grandson Kabir to meet ministers or officials to take back his 'lost treasures'. For the last eight years he left no stone unturned to get back his lost memorabilia, which he had donated to the Sports Authority of India way back in 1985, but Hockey legend Balbir Singh Sr’s last wish to see his treasure remained unfulfilled. One of India’s greatest hockey players who won three Olympic gold medals in a stellar career, Singh died at a hospital in Chandigarh… Read full this story
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