Three of the four archers going to London will be making their Olympic debut, so understandably, they may be feeling a bit jittery.

But it was the most experienced of the quartet who fell hardest in Ogden as Cheng Chu Sian ended qualifying a lowly 76th and was eliminated in the first round of the knockout stage.

Hardly encouraging for an archer ranked 10th in the world.

"What happened in Ogden is something I never experienced before. It's hard to explain, it's like archery sickness, one of those things which affects an archer on the day of the event," said Chu Sian during a break in training in a recent interview with Timesport.

"I've never done that badly in a qualifying round. In fact it could have been worse. At one point, I was outside the top 100 but luckily I improved in the later stages and moved up to 76th.

"I discussed my performance with the coach (Lee Jae-Hyung) and we worked on it there itself. We managed to identify the errors I was making and hopefully it won't happen again.

"It was probably a blessing in disguise it happened in Ogden and not London as we still have time to work on things."

Chu Sian will be making his second Olympic appearance after Beijing 2008 where he reached the quarter-finals of the individual event and, together with Marbawi Sulaiman and Wan Khalmizam Wan Abd Aziz, helped Malaysia secure third seeding in the team event before being knocked out by Italy in the quarter-finals.

As the more experienced archer in the team, Chu Sian will be looked upon to guide teammates Khairul Anuar Mohamed, the World No 5, and Haziq Kamaruddin, as well as the sole Malaysian women archer Nurul Syafiqah Hashim.

"My advice to them is to treat the Olympics like any other competition. Don't think of it as being at the Olympics. The only difference from a normal competition is the Games Village and the travelling.

"As we are going there 10 days before the start of our event, that will be enough time to get used to the surroundings and the travelling. When we went there for the test event, it took us 45 minutes to reach the venue," said Chu Sian.

The archers will continue with their training programme at the National Sports Complex in Bukit Jalil before they leave for London on July 17.