Comments from Team GB archer Sarah Bettles after today’s Individual Ranking Round at the Yumenoshima Ranking Field
Sarah Bettles
Age: 28 Hometown: Telford
Result: 15th in Individual Ranking Round with a score of 653. Will compete in the Mixed Team (Saturday, alongside Patrick Huston), Women’s
Team (Sunday, alongside Bryony Pitman and Naomi Folkard) and Women’s Individual (Wednesday) events.On her first Olympic experience
"I really enjoyed it. I was shaking a lot to begin with, I was coming up to draw and being like, ‘please stop shaking before my hand reaches my anchor'.
“That wore off about halfway through which was good.
“It was hot, that has its own challenges because your hand gets sweaty and you need to be able to have good contact with the bow.
“I was relatively happy with my score, happy with my finishing position.
“I’m ranked 15th and that’s really good, I would have liked a bigger score but given the conditions, I’m happy with it.”
On the challenging conditions
“You start to lose a lot of concentration with the heat.
“We’re stood there for four minutes solid under the sun, and at that point I can’t reapply any chalk, I can’t have a drink.
“For the most part, it’s dealing with the sweat.
“There’s quite a changeable wind, it doesn’t look bad because we don’t have a lot of flags on the field but it had quite a big affect on where the arrows were going.”
On placing 15th in the Individual Ranking Round
“I had no expectations coming into this. I don’t like to set myself outcome goals, I just want to shoot as well as I can and feel happy and comfortable with how I’ve shot by the end of it.
“I’m really happy with 15th in the end.
“It’s exciting. We shoot against most of these people quite often in the World Cup or World Championships.
“The Olympics is a very different stage which adds more pressure to it.”
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