{"id":297159,"date":"2023-11-22T17:39:24","date_gmt":"2023-11-22T17:39:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportslifetale.com\/?p=297159"},"modified":"2023-11-22T17:39:24","modified_gmt":"2023-11-22T17:39:24","slug":"ronnie-osullivan-says-eighth-world-title-not-worth-it-due-to-crucible-torture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportslifetale.com\/nba\/ronnie-osullivan-says-eighth-world-title-not-worth-it-due-to-crucible-torture\/","title":{"rendered":"Ronnie O’Sullivan says eighth world title ‘not worth it’ due to Crucible torture"},"content":{"rendered":"

Stars attend green carpet for Ronnie O'Sullivan documentary<\/h3>\n

Ronnie O’Sullivan’s record-equalling seventh World Snooker Championship triumph came at a significant personal cost, to the extent that the 47-year-old feels as though gunning for another is ‘not worth it’. A behind-the-scenes insight into O’Sullivan’s 2022 Crucible triumph, shown in his new documentary ‘The Edge of Everything’, illustrates the scale of the emotional task involved in a deep run at snooker’s showpiece tournament.<\/p>\n

‘Hell’, ‘an evil event’ and ‘torture’ are just a few of the ways O’Sullivan describes the World Snooker Championship as part of the fly-on-the-wall coverage of his most recent run to glory.<\/p>\n

The Rocket defeated Judd Trump 18-13 in the final, but a series of backstage wobbles threatened to derail his title bid. O’Sullivan admits that the extra motivation which came with being followed by documentary cameras played a significant part in his decision to dig deep.<\/p>\n

“I hadn’t been prepared to [go through such intense emotions] for a few years in Sheffield,” he told Express Sport<\/em> ahead of the documentary’s premiere this week. “But once I invited the cameras in, I wasn’t going to crumble and give a half-hearted display. That was never going to happen.<\/p>\n

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“I know it sounds crazy, but I just don’t think [going through that] is worth it. If you haven’t won the World Championship, then yes, it’s worth it. But I always said that once I got to four, that’s enough. I was quite happy with that. It hadn’t been a total failure.”<\/p>\n

O’Sullivan returned to the Crucible earlier this year for a pop at title number eight, but he was beaten in the quarter-finals by eventual winner Luca Brecel. And while the man considered by many to be the greatest snooker player of all time fully expects to compete once again in 2024, he is pessimistic about his capacity to endure a similarly tough mental ordeal.<\/p>\n