India, April 15 -- For days leading up to the season-opening Archery World Cup in Florida, Dhiraj Bommadevara was gripped in uncertainty. Persistent delay over his US visa kept his participation hanging in the air. Once he did land in Florida after the visa belatedly arrived, the recurve qualification round on the afternoon of April 9 was one hour away.

Rushing straight from the airport to the venue in Auburndale and checking in after the scramble, the Paris Olympian checked out of the World Cup with an individual bronze medal to go with the men's team silver.

From Wednesday's qualification round in which he stood 6th as the top-scoring Indian, to Sunday's bronze medal match in which he rallied to down Spain's Andres Temino Mediel 6-4, ...