Who said too much travelling can affect your performance? Here's how double trap shooter Sodhi prepared for yesterday's gold-medal effort
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Who said too much travelling can affect your performance? Here's how double trap shooter Sodhi prepared for yesterday's gold-medal effort
Even as India's rifle and pistol shooters attributed their poor display at the Asian Games to peaking at last month's Commonwealth Games in Delhi, double trap shooter Ronjan Sodhi showed how to shoot to gold by simply getting the basics right.
The world champion shooter also ensured he had no distractions in Guangzhou. "I had heard that the media is being a little too harsh on the other shooters and didn't want to read any negative reports. Luckily for me, my television set at the hotel where I was put up (not in the athletes village, but closer to the shotgun range which is over 100km away from the village) had only Chinese channels and no Internet. So I was cut off from everything else and could concentrate only on the job ahead," added the 31-year-old ace marksman, who missed qualifying for the Beijing Olympic Games in 2008 due to the Indian quota system despite having equalled two world records en route his gold-winning performance at the World Cup in June.
u00a0"It's ironic that we have so many trials in our country and are expected to shoot well there to make the Indian team despite claiming gold medals in World Cups. Now. I have to forget peaking in international competitions and start peaking in national trials or else I could miss my spot for the next Olympics in London. Thankfully, those trials are in March, so I don't have to think about it straightaway. For now, I will go on a well-deserved break," he signed off.
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