Deepika Kumari: High time I stopped feeling pressure

Deepika Kumari. Pic/AFP

Ace Indian acrcher on Monday confessed that she needs to stop buckling under the pressure of performance at the Olympic Games and approach the biggest sporting stage from a different perspective to deliver desired results in future.

In the form of her life after winning five World Cup medals this year, Deepika, 27, carried the hopes to get the sport their first Olympic archery medal in Tokyo. But it turned out to be anti-climactic as she fizzled out without putting up a fight in both her individual and mixed pair encounters.

"Woh paanch ring ka pressure, haavi ho ja raha hai [pressure of the five Olympic rings is becoming a bit too much ]," confessed Deepika.

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