{"id":68759,"date":"2019-08-22T12:13:08","date_gmt":"2019-08-22T12:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=68759"},"modified":"2019-08-22T12:13:08","modified_gmt":"2019-08-22T12:13:08","slug":"mary-kom-urges-bfi-to-do-away-with-boxing-selection-trials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/mary-kom-urges-bfi-to-do-away-with-boxing-selection-trials\/","title":{"rendered":"Mary Kom urges BFI to do away with boxing selection trials"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Boxing Federation of India cancelled trials in Mary Kom&#8217;s 51kg category for the World Boxing Championships and had sent her name for it based on her past performances.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Asian Championships bronze medallist Nikhat Zareen, who would have faced Mary Kom in the trial, had then shot a letter to the BFI seeking an explanation as to why she was not given a chance to compete for the spot despite being ready to appear for the trials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;It&#8217;s not in my hand,&#8221; Mary Kom said when asked if the system of trials should be shunted. &#8220;It is up to the BFI. Maybe they can change the programme. Those who are performing can get direct quotas to the tournaments,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Other games don&#8217;t have trials. Have Saina Nehwal and P.V. SIndhu ever given trials? Sometimes it feels very strange to keep giving these trials. I have said very clearly, the authorities should decide who is doing better. I will not decide,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mary Kom also denied any role in her name being sent directly for the World&#8217;s and the cancellation of the trials. &#8220;Ask BFI about that. These kind of decisions I cannot take by myself. I had no involvement in this decision. This is all in the hands of the BFI,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boxing Federation of India cancelled trials in Mary Kom&#8217;s 51kg category for the World Boxing Championships and had sent her name for it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":68760,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68759"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68761,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68759\/revisions\/68761"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}