Thoughts of retirement, even at 35, are like a pack of lies for champion boxer MC Mary Kom, who says she is far from relinquishing the queendom she has carved out for herself in all these years.<\/p>\n
The Olympic bronze medallist, five-time world champion and newly-crowned Commonwealth Games champion today swiftly put to rest speculations around possible retirement, which gained credence after she added the CWG gold to her glowing list of achievements.<\/p>\n
The 35-year-old boxer said, “I have never talked about retirement, they were just rumours. Even I was shocked when I heard about my retirement, Mary Kom told reporters in the Capital as India’s boxing team returned from the Gold Coast with three gold, three silver and three bronze medals.<\/p>\n
She has won almost everything but not winning one Olympic gold rankles.<\/p>\n
“An Olympic gold is what I am still dreaming. That remains an unfulfilled dream.”<\/p>\n
She was devastated to miss out on a wildcard entry for the Rio 2016 Olympics.<\/p>\n
She seemed to have got worked up, when a question on calling it quits and age was put to her, but Mary Kom ended up managing it pretty well, often having the audience in splits and, in a lighter vein, also challenging the scribe for a fight.<\/p>\n
“Who said my age is a factor? Come up and I will show what I can do,” she said in jest when asked about boxing in her mid-thirties.<\/p>\n
“This should be taken out of the mind. I will know when my body will not allow me to carry on.”<\/p>\n
‘Magnificent Mary’, who is a mother of three, conceded she had a busy schedule — as a professional athlete, parent and lawmaker — but warned her opponents against assuming she had too much on her plate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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