"As a shooter, I am in the prime of things. I have 2012 Olympics waiting around the corner for me," Rathore said but added after a pause "...if I continue".

"I have two more Olympics ahead of me because I may be 37-year-old now but my biological age is still 27. I feel very fit and motivated.”

"But I don't want to make any hasty decision. I want to back my decision with my commitment. I will do anything only to make my country proud," he said in an interview.

The Army marksman, who finished 15th in a field of 19 double trap shooters in Beijing, insists he is not shattered, contrary to the belief following his emotional outburst immediately after the loss in Beijing.

"Hollowness was my first feeling (after the loss) in Beijing. Four years of hard work goes down just in one day, it was a sense of being lost out," he said.

"But this is not my first time. When I started no one believed in me. I was denied even the basic facilities. When I started at 28, people said this is no age to start. I had left my job to pursue an entirely new profession from the scratch just because I believed in myself.”

"Initially, I had been to corporates but was denied support of even Rs 10,000. My mom became my first sponsor, she helped me with Rs 50,000," Rathore said describing a string of lows he went through.

The Lieutenant Colonel said the public support, his employers and his sponsors always had faith in him and that kept him going.

"I always got people's support that kept me going. Now I have faith of my sponsors Sahara, Hero Honda and Indian Army. I can assure that my best is yet to come.”

"I will start afresh... in anything I do. I am always driven by a sense of achievement," he said.

Rathore says at the moment he is content with the fact that he had given India the confidence to win the Olympic gold.

"I am at the beginning of a tradition and not at the end of it and I am happy about that. Earlier India's Olympic athletes were seen as people who bring shame to India, without realising what the sportspersons go through in the process.”

"But post Athens there is a sense of belief among Indians about Olympic sports. If I can start a revolution by making people believe in themselves that is the biggest achievement.”