•Kunal Pradhan: Perhaps for the umpteenth time but with a little more distance now, would you like to recount the Olympics gold medal moment and your last shot of 10.8?

When I went into the final round, I had a lot of trouble in my sighting shot. We have about five minutes to train, which is basically a formality, but in my first shot, my sighting shot was a 4. I really don't know what happened. I shot my final in a complete state of shock, and I am still to get out of it.

Going into the last shot, I knew I had shot really well until then and I knew I needed a good shot to probably get a medal, and because I shot the entire final in a state of shock, I had to really dig into my reserves. I had trained a lot for that final shot. I had strategy which I had put into place months before. My decision was to shoot a really quick shot, to shoot a really aggressive shot so I went for it. It could’ve easily gone the other way but I trained hard for it and I'm glad that it went in.

Then I was a little scared because I didn’t know how well I had done and I thought there might be a shoot-off. I knew I had probably won a medal -- I didn't know which colour. So I looked back at my coach and she told me there was no shoot-off. Then I walked back to her, I was too scared to look at the scoreboard. I was hoping for the best, I was hoping it was enough to win gold but I wasn’t too sure. Then she told me that I had won. I had a sense of complete fulfillment.

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