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‘Emotional readiness is of paramount importance’
But when all seemed settled, the CWG organisers could not add him in as the deadline had passed. On June 22, his entry was finally approved by the Commonwealth Games Federation.
At the jump pit, the trans-Tasman rivals might have shared the bigger spoils between them with an identical 2.25m, but that didn’t matter. For, if there ever was a knock-punch in high jumping, it was what Tejaswin delivered with his terrific, mad-rush bronze here.

“There’s a juncture where your emotional readiness is of paramount importance. Physical peak is different from emotional peak. It’s ifs and buts, but had I been at my emotional peak, I would have liked to go for the gold,” he would say later. It’s clear who the message was intended for.
It was not like this last month. That spring in Tejaswin’s step, a second nature for the tall man and his routine, was in danger of being taken away. He was in complete dilemma whether he would be able to participate or not: going one moment, sitting out the next.

Tejaswin’s personal best is 2.29m (a national record) and he felt he could’ve gone better than the top two if mentally he wasn’t so hassled before the event. But something tells us, Tejaswin was secretly enjoying the rush, relishing the thrill of the chase. “If I say in one sentence, had I not got a medal here then it wouldn’t have fulfilled my own expectation,” he told this correspondent later.