I've learnt to enjoy every medal win: Lovlina Borgohain
Olympic boxer Lovlina Borgohain reflects on her career, noting a shift in mindset from constant self-criticism to appreciating her achievements. She discusses the personal sacrifices required to maintain elite performance levels.
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Provides insight into the mental health challenges and psychological pressures faced by high-performance athletes.
It isn’t easy being an athlete. The constant pressure of perfor mance, making sacrifices at various stages of their career and rarely finding moments to appreciate the victories, gets too much to handle at times.Thirteen years after living an athlete’s life, Tokyo Games bronze medallist boxer Lovlina Borgohain has realised that a lot of her time has gone more in overthinking and less in celebrating. So, when she had to settle for silver at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow on Saturday, she said she needed to work harder, but she also cel-ebrated the silver rather than ruing over the missed gold. “I feel I need to work even harder, though my prepara-tion this time was solid and I had put in good effort. I missed out by a small margin, but I am happy.
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