India's star grappler Sushil Kumar has little to prove on the wrestling mat, having achieved almost everything there is in the sport. So today's 74kg selection trials in New Delhi for next month's World Wrestling Championships in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan (September 14-22) should be a cakewalk for India's only double Olympic medal-winning wrestler, right? Wrong!

Sushil, 36, has not been in good touch lately. He followed up his embarrassing first-round exit at last year's Asian Games in Indonesia with a quarter-final defeat at the Medved tournament in Minsk, Belarus earlier this month. However, in the repechage round thereafter, he nearly got his hands on a bronze medal. And that, Sushil claims, has given him confidence to do well today.