It was a disappointing morning for India as a dream of the Olympic medal in Archery destroyed with the DAS losing 4-6 to Japan Takaharu Furukawa, silver winner in the 2012 edition, in the pre-quarter-final match of the local individual set to Tokyo on Saturday.
For the watershed, the last Indian archer standing in the Yumenoshima Park, it was the last 16 door in a row from the match.
In Rio’s game five years ago, he had lost an identical margin for the former Korean world champion Lee Seungyun.
It seems that the watershed had played his best hand in knocking down the gold medal of the London Korean Olympics Oh Jin Hyek in the last 32 match on Thursday, when Kolkata’s archers put up a rather ordinary show on Saturday.
He seemed to look for divine intervention when he looked at the sky after hitting nine with his last arrow in the fifth set set.
However, it did not come because Furukawa reached nine to win a set of 27-26 and seal the match too.
The 29-year-old child lost the first set of 25-27 hit the two 8s.
He recovered in seconds to put a score of 28 but his rival fits the arrow with an arrow to bind the set.
The best shooting watershed in the third found two10s to win 28-27 and increase the score at 3-3, but another bound set in which the two archers fired 9-10-9 which was identical to determine the fifth set.
“I struggled a little today, but I tried my best,” said the watershed after losses.
Seeing the failed Olympic campaign again, Arjuna’s award winner felt “Maybe we were too serious and forgot to enjoy the shooting.” The watershed then apologized for the show with tweeting “Sorry India, I could not bring glory in this Olympics.” He accepted it that the archers got all the help in run-up to the game, but also questioned the federation’s decision.
“As soon as the Olympics, you are called to trial selection.
How among the tournaments you are told that you have to appear for the selection trial? Nobody listens to us, the order comes only from above,” he said.
The archer will immediately report in Sonify on a return where they will take part in the selection test for the World Championship on August 4-5.