Even the hands of an experienced veteran like Takaharu Furukawa sometimes tremble with tension while shooting an arrow at a target 70 meters away.
Yet he explained that mental fortitude plays a huge role in archery.
"Archery is about mental strength," Furukawa said after he and Tomomi Sugimoto nabbed a gold medal with a decisive victory over North Korea in the recurve mixed team competition at the Asian Games on Monday.
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