Coach appointed 50 days ago Gujarat boxers punch above their weight at National Games

I have been to many dark places and know that I might not have survived to tell the tale without knowing my own culture of high Himalaya and eastern spiritual knowledge. Nepal’s mountains have long been a destination for adventure lovers. Mountains like Everest, Lhotse, Annapurna, Manaslu and Dhaulagiri have been skied by foreigners since the 1980s. Krishna Thapa says he himself has skied of Dhaulagiri, Manaslu and Makalu and says if promoted well, Nepal could do wonders. He has completed a raft of world first’s including leading the largest Summit group up Everest of 13 UK Special Forces and Gurkha and he was the first serving Warrant officer to scale Mt Everest & K2.

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He has also skied from the summits of Dhaulagiri and other 8000m peaks. He has guided amputees, blinds, deaf, Parkinson’s disease sufferers and PTSD veterans on expedition in Africa, Europe, and the Himalayas of Nepal. “Krishna and Thapa have improved a lot since the last time I saw them. While Krishna was in playing XI, Thapa played well in the last two tournaments and broke into the first team. When Goutam Ghosh, head coach of AIFF Kalyani Regional Academy, announced the 18-member Indian team for the second edition of Asia U-16 Champions Trophy, starting in Kuala Lampur, Malaysia, on May 17, the names of look at these guys Krishna Pandit and Anirudh Thapa were on top of his list. The two football players have done enough in the last two years to earn the confidence of the coach.

She’s a diminutive boxer, almost always shorter than most of her opponents, even for the light welter weight (48 kg). She’s waited three years since her gold medal at the World Youth in Turkey to be given a chance to compete internationally, and patiently bided her time never slackening in practice because boxing is something she doesn’t want to stop. And so it is that Sarju never stops training — or thinking about it even as she stops at Mumbai for some media interactions. “I don’t like taking off on Sunday,” says the soft-spoken girl, restless to grasp that World title.

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“I was very happy when I got selected for this edition after winning Nationals. But I knew only gold medals get noticed, otherwise they’ll say she’s a loser boxer,” she explains. “Before my trials for Youth Nationals, I had set off to SAI for a camp and hadn’t been home for months. My sister — she was 14 or 15 then — had called up in the morning and told me she had prayed I’d be selected.

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• Me doing well in boxing is very important for my whole family,” she recalls.

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• One way out of this drudgery, a young Sarju had figured at age 13, was to hop across her street to a small boxing academy Kongba Amateur where she could punch to her heart’s content and attempt to do what Manipur’s idol Mary Kom did to leap out of obscurity.
• But Ghosh kept his faith in Krishna and included him in the 22-member U-16 team for the AFC U-16 Championship Qualifiers in Kuwait.

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• She died later that day of an illness that was never diagnosed because the family couldn’t afford.

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• He has got a good technique and is a great passer of the ball.

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• But I had to make that one chance count,” she repeats, sounding sad at how things turned out in the finals at Korea.

But I had to make that one chance count,” she repeats, sounding sad at how things turned out in the finals at Korea. But this time when I saw her, she was mixing regular southpaw with variations of southpaw and I couldn’t figure out her attack,” she says. In her first attempt at winning a World Championship — “since Mary didi has won 5 times” — Sarju fell one step short. I will not stop until I win a World title,” says the dogged pugilist who faltered in the final at Jeju, Korea and had to settle for the second medal, paler than the gold.

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If done right, skiing can be huge in Nepal because there are so many places it can be done,” says Krishna Thapa, an internationally recognised ski instructor. “Krishna’s main strength is his height which he uses to good effect. His physique has also improved and he is very good in front of the goal. I have seen Thapa ever since he broke into the India U-13 team.