hs prannoy who was conferred with the arjuna award on wednesday at the national sports awardsceremony said it felt like recognition of a lifetime of hard work the award shows how much effort you have put in there were years when i experienced a little disappointment but i have always felt that things happen a little late for me not just on the professional side but personal tooread alsoi know people are already rooting for me to get a medal in the paris olympics pv sindhuin a chat with us sindhu spoke about how she stays focussed and also shared her desire to see deepika padukone play her on the big screen if there was a film made on hernow it feels like it was all worth it he told us a day before the ceremony at rashtrapati bhavanpresident droupadi murmu conferred hs prannoy with the arjuna award at the ceremony at rashtrapati bhavanthe shuttler who was a part of the thomas cup winning squad and is now gearing up for the bwfworld tour finals almost quit badminton at one point i had conversations with my parents where i told them that i am done with it and i want to do something else i have gone through all of these situations where you dont have funding to play tournaments and then despite that to focus on what you want to do and believe that youre not done with the sport and still have a lot more years left in itit takes a lot of effort to have that belief thats what this award means to me i never quit believing that i could get better he saysprannoy was part of the india mens badminton team that scripted history by beating 14 time champion indonesia by 30 in the thomas cup final in mayin may this year the india mens badminton team scripted history by beating 14time champion indonesia by 30 in the thomas cup final the biggest challenge was getting into the final says prannoy who was the one to beat denmarks rasmus gemke in the semifinal deciderprannoy who had slipped and hurt his ankle in the first game says he knew he had to power through it because when i looked behind i understood that this is something that an entire bunch of people wants me to do today after playing for a decade i understand that a bronze is a bronze and a gold is a gold i did not think about winning the only thing i was thinking about was how to get back into that zone and focus luckily things fell right into place for me and my mental training of the last two years probably showed in that gamethe injury was bad but i did not know about its intensity i thought this match could turn the page in indian badminton history and it did getting into the finals was the biggest challenge for us as a team and i knew