![]() Though Kumari resented everything she was feeling, she knew she wasn’t alone.Īfter she was knocked out of the women’s competition all Indian archery hopes fell on her husband Atanu Das competing in the men’s individual event. I began to wonder what I am even doing with myself anymore.”Īrcher Deepika Kumari and her Olympic tale Deepika Kumari & Atanu Das: finding solace in one another “When you fail after you’ve told yourself ki yeh karna hi hai (that I have to do this), you begin to doubt everything you know. “I know I wasn’t good enough in Tokyo or I’d have a medal with me today,” Kumari continued to ESPN detailing her emotional turmoil. The archery ace crashed out and was subsequently devastated. “It’s not just about what people expect of you, but also what you want of yourself.”ĭespite bettering her performance from her previous two Olympic outings in reaching the top eight, Kumari found herself halted by top seed An San of Korea, who defeated the Indian 6-0 in the quarter-finals. “When you’re thinking we don’t have a single medal in history so we can’t mess this up, it’s just the wrong sort of pressure,” Kumari said in a recent interview with ESPN India. ![]() The Ranchi-born archer was on stunning form and wanted to prove it. Twice before, at London 2012 and Rio 2016, Kumari had attempted to bring home India’s first Olympic archery gold but had fallen short.īut Tokyo would be different, she sensed.Īfter all, she had made the perfect start to the Olympic year, clinching two gold medals in the Archery World Cup Stage I in April before bagging a hat-trick of gold medals at Stage III at the marquee event in Paris. The 27-year-old recurve women's world number two arrived at the Games in the Japanese capital with every intention of landing a piece of Olympic silverware. Tokyo 2020 did not go the way Indian archer Deepika Kumari had planned. ![]()
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