4 World Championships and not a single honor from the Government

You can call MC Mary Kom as one of the most successful boxers in the world. She has consistently won the World Championships not twice, but 4 times. She recently won the her 4th World Championship held at Ningbo City , China.

Wow, we have a winner here. So did you expect the Government to honor her with awards ? If you did expect, well you are wrong, the Government has consistently ignored and hasn’t even bothered to confer her their appreciation. Her grouse as well as mine is what does it take to get appreciation from the Government. A 100 titles ? A MS Dhoni with 1 Twenty Twenty World Cup gets the Khel Ratna , but here is someone who has won 4 boxing world championships and there is simply no way she would get an award ?

I would at the best call it discrimination in Sports. Time that MC Mary Kom gets her due. If she has to fight just like she does on the ring, then am sure the mandarins and ministers will wake up from their deep slumber.

Give them a punch Mary, they sure deserve it.

Boxing: Boxing champion Mary Kom returns to a quiet reception

World champion MC Mary Kom returned home to a quiet welcome on Sunday night after winning an unprecedented fourth successive gold medal in the 46kg category at the fifth World women’s boxing championships at Ningbo city in China.

Mary Kom has defied the longest possible odds to get back into the boxing ring and on her return she hasn’t just made up the numbers but actually beaten the best in the world.

“This gold medal is dedicated to my twins,” says Mary Kom.

They are the words of a determined mother. After winning gold at the world championships in Delhi two years back; Mary Kom walked away from the ring.

She went back to Manipur and gave birth to twins. Bt just when it seemed that domesticity had ended a grand career, Mary Kom came back punching and won the world championship for a fourth time.

“My children are very small, they are just one year and three months old and I have to leave them and represent the country in boxing competitions. My family and many others have supported me,” Mary Kom says.

The triumph in China has made her the most successful woman boxer of all time and inspiration to many.

“Mary Kom is very brave and we all are very proud of her. She has come back to represent the country after a break of two years and giving birth to twins,” says another boxer Sarita.

It was possibly one of the quietest felicitations of a world champion but that’s clearly not on Mary Kom’s mind. She is keen on 2012 London Olympics and is hoping that women’s boxing gets a go there.

“My aim is to win a medal in Olympics,” she says.

That’s still a few years away and in fact women’s boxing isn’t among the disciplines for the Commonwealth Games in 2010 in Delhi, which leaves Mary Kom no choice but to keep hitting the road in search of success.

Womens Boxing: Mary Kom through to quarters of World C’ship

MC Mary Kom (46kg) started her quest for a fourth successive title with a resounding victory to enter the quarter-finals as defending champions India rounded off an all-win day at the fifth World Women’s Boxing Championships in Ningbo City (China).

Mary Kom out-punched Japan’s Risa Sugimoto 24-1 in a lopsided bout on Sunday. Such was the Manipuri boxer’s dominance that she did not allow her opponent to land a single scoring punch in two of the three rounds.

The reigning national champion garnered 18 of her 24 points in the first couple of rounds before completing the formalities in the third.

Mary Kom will now square off against local favourite Guan Xiao Feng in the last eight stage.

The other Indian in action, L Sarita Devi, a gold medallist from the last edition of the event in New Delhi , also made light work of French opponent Saliha Ouchen, beating her 12-5 in the 52kg opening bout.

Sarita will next be up against Egypt’s Hassan in the pre-quarters.