Tokyo: Indian Archer Star Deepika Kumari said he wanted to prove himself that he was able to win a medal at the Olympics after losing the last two editions.
World number one archer, who prepared for the third straight Olympics, never met expectations, made the initial exit in previous appearances in London 2012 and Rio 2016.
Read the athletes Awaris began training in front of Tokyo Olympic athletes about the land running when they started pre-training The Olympics day after landing here, hoping to meet massive expectations in a pandemic-hit match.
The first batch of Indian athletes arrived on Sunday morning and checked into the village game after meeting “I want to prove to yourself that I can win,” Deepika, who started pre-Olympic training here, to Archery World ahead of the game.
“So this is very important for me, the whole team of my archery and my country.
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https://t.co/OSYRGPZEO8- Syria (@Media_sai) 1626664996000 “This is very important because Indian archery does not have an Olympic medal so I want to win.” The 2010 Commonwealth Games game has become the world no 1 ahead of his first Olympic appearance in London but only to make him out of the first round.
“At my first Olympics , I got number one world number one, even though I didn’t realize it.
It was a kind of fantasy for me to be the first Olympics, “he said.
Back as the world no 1 after winning the consecutive World Cup gold medal this year, Deepika said:” Much has changed since then …
I really worked hard mentally Which gives me many positive results.
“I was left to be very lagged on the last two Olympics, so I did it and built my belief with it.
I kept trying to improve my performance.” Indian archers have their first training session in the Yumenoshima ranking field on Monday.
Deepika will be an Indian archer who is alone at the Olympics after a woman’s team failed to qualify.
After qualifying around the opening day of the match on Friday, Deepika will hold its first event, a mixed partner competition, on Saturday.
His individual events will begin on July 27.