A Muhammad Ali fan, Mary Kom is easily India's best bet to win a gold medal at the London Olympics. Mary Kom recently beat Chinese opponent Ren Cancan to win a gold medal at the sixth Asian Women's Boxing Championship. Mary Kom won her world amateur titles at 46 and 48kg but the lightest of the three weight categories in London will be 51kg. Her defeat at the weight class in the 2010 Asian Games semi-finals was a wake-up call and she spent a ...
more A Muhammad Ali fan, Mary Kom is easily India's best bet to win a gold medal at the London Olympics. Mary Kom recently beat Chinese opponent Ren Cancan to win a gold medal at the sixth Asian Women's Boxing Championship. Mary Kom won her world amateur titles at 46 and 48kg but the lightest of the three weight categories in London will be 51kg. Her defeat at the weight class in the 2010 Asian Games semi-finals was a wake-up call and she spent a month in Pune sparring with three heavier male boxers to prepare. She knows that the transition from the 48-kg weight category to 51 kg has its pitfalls. A game trier, she says will certainly make a fight out of it. A mother of two, the 29-year-old says that the Olympics will be tough as she has powerful opponents to box against in her new weight category.
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