With the Asian Games over and done with, India’s medals century has evoked all the correct reactions, with people hailing its achievements as path-breaking, epochal and phenomenal. The praise is warranted and hats off to all the athletes who helped us enter the three-figure realm.

Having said that, we must now start looking at those who missed medals by a whisker, who simply did not figure on the podium for any reason and see if they need any help regarding their mental health to get ready for the road ahead.