New Delhi: Rifle shooter Joydeep Karmakar has experienced the pain of narrowly missing out on an Olympic medal and ahead of the Summer Games in Rio, he has penned down the hurdles created by coaches and officials in the run-up to the London Games.

In a book titled 'My Olympic Journey', Karmakar recalls how he felt after reaching the final of the Men's 50m Rifle Prone before finishing a painful fourth. "In London, my friend Vijay Kumar was on the podium. He had shot a sensational final to win India's second medal of the Games and the second silver medal for Indian shooting after Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore in 2004. Seeing Vijay on that podium, something inside me snapped. I started crying like a baby. At that moment, I realized what I had missed," recalls Karmakar in a book co-authored by journalists Digvijay Singh Deo and Amit Bose.