Avinash Sable wants to forget the Commonwealth Games silver quickly. “I need to forget this achievement soon,” the 3000m steeplechase medallist tells The Hindu, on his return from Birmingham.
“I have to restart training as if I have not achieved anything. I do feel happy. But the main focus is to not think that I have done something extraordinary. I remember my losses and learn from them. I forget my victories.”
This mentality is perhaps what helped Sable overcome the disappointment of having finished 11th at the World Championships. In what was the slowest steeplechase final in World Championships history, he clocked 8:31.75s, his worst time since October 2019. In Birmingham, he went 8:11.20s and bettered his best performance for the ninth time.
