Skeet shooter Anant Jeet Singh Naruka, 25, was holding on to the joint lead with Kuwait’s Abdullah Al-Rashidi and was chased by Qatar’s Nasser Al-Attiya right up to the 43rd shot in the 60-shot final. Then the young Indian missed one shot and moments later, a second, to eventually win the silver medal.

The fact that gold-winner Al-Rashidi, 60, hasn’t lost that spot since the 2010 Guangzhou Asian Games and Al-Attiya, 52, who won bronze, is also a two-time Asiad and Olympic medallist, could well have played on Naruka’s mind.