So, that was a big 5-6 cm jump, which is pretty significant in high jump. Back then, I didn’t even know what you needed to jump high. I was recently talking to my coach about juggling many things—like doing a job, trying the decathlon, moving away from high jump. Your identity is high jump, why do you want to move to decathlon? Training became monotonous for me, after a point, when I was training for high jump.

Source: Forbes December 03, 2022 21:27 UTC