Why did abhinav bindra lose

There was more euphoria around me than within me. So I had to deal with that I couldn't suddenly just disconnect from what was happening around me.

When things finally settled down, maybe a month or a couple of months after the Games, that's when I really felt that void even more. I needed to know what to do with myself, I needed my energy back. Sport is much, much more than the competition that happens. The biggest learning from sport is that it teaches you to accept failures.

Success was the greatest crisis. And I know a lot of people who feel that way. There are top athletes who get disoriented after achieving what they wanted to. Spare a thought for the organising committee of this Olympics — in two weeks from now, the world will move on from Tokyo What I mean is, when you work with all your focus on a singular thing, it has the potential to create these voids. In my Olympic journey, I made the mistake of focussing too much on one pursuit. I put all my eggs in one basket.

But the biggest error I made was that I started believing that a gold medal equates to happiness. We orient our lives towards an outcome, which I feel is not the right approach. I made that mistake, and perhaps that's why I felt lost after winning the gold. When I did win the gold medal, I wasn't suddenly happier. Well, maybe I was, for a few minutes. Failure hurts, as it must. It's a definite punch to your ego. But you get over it much faster. When I failed in Athens in , I still had Beijing to look forward to.

World Cup Points Table. This story is from May 12, The shooting great also talked about how he faced depression after witnessing the greatest high in his career. You know, it's pretty ironic that my biggest mental crisis in my life came when I actually succeeded. For me, dealing with success was probably the hardest time in my life. Up until Beijing when I had my greatest victory, I had trained for 16 years of life with a singular goal and I wanted to win a gold medal at the Olympics," said Bindra in a YouTube interview for Mind Matters.

From that day to this particular day, I have never gotten back to the shooting range. Abhinav Bindra said that dealing with the success of being the first Olympic gold medallist was the hardest thing in his life and he entertained thoughts of quitting the sport.

Tags Abhinav Bindra gold medal Olympic gold Olympics shooting. But more than anything, when you are goalless, you are listless in your life. That is false and we need to reverse that equation and make it as happiness equals gold medal. I decided that I will go on a day silent retreat where I wanted to just find myself," said Bindra. Asked about his decision to retire, Bindra said: "I was at peace with my decision.

I left my sport when I knew I had nothing more to give. From that day to this particular day, I have never gotten back to the shooting range.