MARY KOM

MUMBAI, India — Former champion shooter and India’s debutant for individual Olympic gold medal, Abhinav Bindra, has exhibited mixed emotion’s towards India’s three-year course to Paris Olympics in 2024. We have good momentum now as we advance.”“I see the next Olympics cycle will be tricky, primarily because of the shorter cycle. She finished third at the Tokyo Olympics Boxing events after losing the semi-final. “I will definitely play Paris [2024 Olympics] and will give my best and play 100 percent,” she said. “We have a lot of time.”(With inputs from ANI)Edited by Amrita Das and Krishna KakaniThe post Three-Year Olympic Cycle Will Be Tricky: India’s First Individual Gold Medalist appeared first on Zenger News.

Boxing's return to Olympic competition in Tokyo looks like it could be fairly smooth after a half-decade of turmoil and drama at the highest levels.

“My main aim of life is to become a World Champion someday.” Manlun decided to join the Mary Kom Regional Boxing Foundation in 2020 after looking at the facilities they provide. It makes me strive to become like our ma’am (Kom).”Manlun and Devi are among the six women from Kom’s training academy whose dreams have got fueled recently. Dream Sports Foundation , one of India’s major sports technology companies, has collaborated with the Mary Kom Regional Boxing Foundation to support six female pugilists hailing from India’s northeastern states. She started the Mary Kom Regional Boxing Foundation in 2006 with her husband K. Onkholer Kom. In 2015, the foundation’s name was changed to Mary Kom-SAI Boxing Academy under the Sports Authority of India’s extension scheme .

These were mostly small-budget projects that did not set the box office tingling. Another biopic on Bhagat Singh, “The Legend of Bhagat Singh” (2002), won a few awards but bombed at the box office. Dhoni: The Untold Story” was released, it became one of the biggest grosser at the box office, collecting almost INR 200 crore ($27 million). Therefore, we thought that this story needs to be told.”But an interesting story does not necessarily mean box office success. On being released, he reclaimed box office success with films such as “Vastaav: The Reality” (1999), in which he played a gangster.