tokyo star indian archer deepika kumari says she wants to prove to herself that she is capable of winning a medal at the olympics after missing out in the last two editionsthe world number one archer who is gearing up for her third straight olympics has never lived up to the expectation making early exits in her previous appearances in london 2012 and rio 2016i want to prove to myself that i can win deepika who started her preolympic training here on monday told world archery ahead of the gamesread alsoindian athletes start training ahead of tokyo olympicsindian athletes hit the ground running as they started their preolympic training a day after landing here hoping to live up to massive expectations in the pandemichit games the first batch of indian athletes arrived on sunday morning and checked in to the games village after fulfilling theso its very important for me my entire archery team and my countryits very important because indian archery does not have an olympic medal so i want to winthe 2010 commonwealth games gold medallist had become world no 1 ahead of her maiden olympic appearance in london but only to make a first round exitat my first olympics i was ranked world number one though i was not aware of it much it was kind of a fantasy for me being the first olympics she saidback as world no 1 after winning successive world cup gold medals this year deepika said a lot has changed since then ive worked really hard mentally which is giving me a lot of positive resultsi was left very much behind at the last two olympics so im working on that and building my confidence with it im continuously trying to better my performancethe indian archers had their first practice session at the yumenoshima ranking field on mondaydeepika will be the lone female indian archer at the olympics after the womens team failed to qualifyafter the qualifications round on the opening day of the games on friday deepika will have her first event the mixed pair competition on saturdayher individual event will begin on july 27