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Four-time Olympian archer Deepika Kumari is not contemplating status conscionable yet and is alternatively focusing connected gathering intelligence spot to grip high-pressure situations, with an oculus connected a last hurrah astatine the Los Angeles Games.
The 29-year-old, who volition beryllium 34 erstwhile the Los Angeles Olympics travel astir successful 2028, said connected Friday (October 3, 2025) it would astir apt beryllium her last quality astatine the Games, adding that her mindset for the adjacent variation is "do-or-die."
"This is not the past signifier of my career—I haven’t decided connected that yet. I judge each my competitions truthful acold person been truly bully experiences," Ms. Deepika told PTI Videos connected the sidelines of the opening time of the Archery Premier League successful New Delhi.
Deepika said her grooming presently revolves astir refining some intelligence and method aspects of her performance.
"I person been moving connected some the intelligence and method aspects of my game, and this league is helping maine amended further. Playing successful beforehand of a assemblage brings pressure, but that unit really helps players turn and hole better," Ms. Deepika said.
"I’m trying to maestro each technique. In the past, I person often struggled mentally during important matches successful tournaments, which has outgo maine results.
“I’m doing a batch of visualisation, intelligence training, reasoning portion walking, reasoning portion eating — each of it. I privation my method to beryllium truthful profoundly ingrained that I don’t person to deliberation astir it during unit moments. I’m grooming hard." Ms. Deepika welcomed the inclusion of compound archery successful the Olympic programme, saying it volition importantly heighten India’s medal prospects.
“I’m precise blessed due to the fact that the compound is present portion of the Olympics. Everyone was wondering erstwhile it would happen, and yet it has. Our medal tally has already gone up successful galore tournaments, and our compound squad is precise strong," Ms. Deepika said.
Mental wellbeing and sport
She besides highlighted the beardown enslaved shared among Indian archers, which, according to her, plays a important relation successful handling the intelligence challenges of the sport.
“We enactment each different a batch arsenic archers. On the field, we speech astir archery, but we besides assistance each different disconnected the field. If idiosyncratic is struggling mentally oregon technically, we speech and negociate it together," Ms. Deepika said.
The Olympian further praised her concern with chap archer and hubby Atanu Das, saying the 2 stock communal enactment some connected and disconnected the field.
Ms. Deepika besides hailed the inaugural Archery Premier League being held successful India, calling it a long-awaited boost for the athletics successful the country.
"We’re playing a tourney close present successful India, and I’m precise excited due to the fact that it’s the archetypal clip specified a league has started. We are each enjoying it a lot. Finally, the archery league has started, and it’s thing we’ve waited for a agelong time," Ms. Deepika added.
She besides urged fans to travel and enactment the players astatine the venues.
"People should travel and cheer for the players. The assemblage creates unit — and that’s a bully happening due to the fact that it prepares america for high-stakes matches. When radical travel and retrieve the names of the players, it creates an energy,” Ms. Deepika said.
