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DIDN'T LIVE UP TO MY EXPECTATIONS: SRIHARI
The Morning Standard
|August 21, 2024
IN the weeks leading up to the Paris Games, Srihari Nataraj was very pleased with himself.
His mind and body had been in sync and he had just completed a very good training block. So much that he expected to do 'something big at the Olympics'. However, that wasn't what had transpired.
In an interview, Nataraj, one of India's best swimmers in recent times, says he 'couldn't live up to my own expectations or training. Excerpts:
On his Olympics
I trained really well. I definitely expected to do something big at the Olympics but my performances didn't live up to my own expectations or my training. It's what it is. Obviously, a lot of people were talking about the pool and the conditions not being okay. But I don't know... I have swam in worse pools in India. At the end of the day, that is the result I came back home with.
I think I swam well, just that the results didn't show.
On the reasons why it didn't show
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