PV Sindhu won the badminton gold, at least for this TV news channel

For everyone else PV Sindhu, India's golden girl with the long legs and fantastic smile, won the silver medal and a billion-plus hearts as she faced off with Spain's Carolina Marin, who of course, won the gold. 

But not for a TV channel. It seems NDTV, in its bid to play Nostradamus, prematurely published a story that had a brilliant, if a bit too optimistic, a headline: "PV Sindhu Upsets Carolina Marin To Clinch Historic Badminton Gold in Rio Olympics."

As usual, you first heard it on Twitter.

The story, obviously a draft that was accidentally published, sent Twitter into a tizzy, exactly as Sindhu was having that gladiatorial, nail-biting match with Marin.

For a change, the bhakt universe wanted NDTV's predictions to come true.

Though some spotted a hint of gender bias even in this premature jubilation.

Exactly as #SindhuForGold trended, Twitter had to observe some control, while NDTV went Crtl, ALt, Del - for obvious reasons.

Let's say NDTV missed being right by a sliver, as Sindhu bagged the silver!