India's latest Olympic quota holder, Sanjeev Rajput on Friday said he was "under pressure and disturbed" after one of his shots was recorded as zero due to a scoring equipment malfunction in the ISSF World Cup here.
Staging a remarkable recovery, Rajput secured India's eighth Olympic quota in shooting with a silver medal in the men's 50m rifle 3 positions event of the World Cup on Thursday.
The 38-year-old shot 462 in the final to finish second on the podium behind Petar Gorsa of Croatia (462.2).
"I was a little disturbed throughout the qualification as one of my shots was recorded as a zero," the two-time Olympian said.
"We then protested and fired an extra shot, which was a 10 and I qualified comfortably.
"In fact we are still in protest and my score should be 1181 and not 1180."
"When that sequence gets disturbed, the release gets delayed by a fraction - these things can happen in shooting. It is a matter of the tiniest fractions."
"So today even though I knew that the difference was big going into the standing position, I followed the entire process judiciously - you know the whole sequence leading up to the shot release and I guess that helped."
"This change in approach is the biggest reason that medals are coming."
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