Los Angles Olympics medal winner of Indian Origin

Most Indians remember 1984 Olympics by P.T Usha’s narrow miss of a medal medal in 400 meter hurdles by .01 seconds to Romanian athlete Cristeana Cojocaru.

It is interesting to note that the media at that time, did not highlight the fact that a Sikh of Indian origin, Alexi Grewal won Gold medal in road cycling. He defeated the Canadian, Steve Bauer and covered the distance of 190.2 km to win the medal. A crowd of approximately 300,000 cheered the Indian-Sikh. He raced to a lead of 24 seconds , also the final lap was very exciting as Both Baur and Grewal were close to take lead over the other.

After winning the Gold medal, he turned professional and signed for the Panasonic team and then with 7-eleven team, he captained the 7-eleven cycling team. But in 1986 he was dropped out of the team because he spat at a CBS camera man.

After retiring, he moved with his family to Colorado, where he started to make hand-hewn and furniture. In an accident with the saw, he lost some part of a finger. In 2004 he was inducted into the United States Bicycling Hall of Fame.