NEW DELHI: Star Indian wrestler Bajrang Punia on Saturday revealed that he suffered from insecurities post his career-threatening knee injury in June last year and later settling for a consolatory bronze at the Tokyo Olympics, informing that it took a series of medical tests and doctor consultation to get over his self-doubts in the run up to the upcoming Commonwealth Games in Birmingham next month.
“I realised that my body had become slow, my attacking moves during competitive bouts lacked zing, I can’t move rapidly on the mat. Even after the Tokyo Olympics, I couldn’t get over my injury concerns. For the next 8-9 months, my mind would only think about the knee injury that I had suffered. There was always this fear of getting injured again, which affected my game," Bajrang, the reigning CWG and Asian Games champion, told media in an interaction facilitated by the SAI.
