Couldn't Believe": Mary Kom Slams IOC Boxing Task Force After Tokyo Olympics Loss
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Six-time best on the planet Mary Kom on Thursday hammered the International Olympic Committee's Boxing Task Force for "helpless deciding" in her Flyweight (51kg) pre-quarterfinal at the Tokyo Games which she lost regardless of winning two of the three rounds. The Task Force is directing the boxing rivalry at the Tokyo Olympics after the International Boxing Association (AIBA) was suspended by the IOC for supposed bungle and monetary bad behavior. "I don't have the foggiest idea and comprehend this choice, what's up with the Task Force? What's up with the IOC?" she asked in a telephonic meeting to PTI after the 2-3 misfortune to Colombian Ingrid Valencia in the pre-quarters in Tokyo.
"I was additionally an individual from the Task Force. I was in any event, giving them ideas and supporting them in guaranteeing a perfect rivalry. Be that as it may, how have they managed me?" she said.
The 38-year-old, various-time Asian hero who was peering toward her second Olympic award after the bronze at the 2012 London Games, said the misfortune didn't soak in even after she had gone for her bonehead test.
"I was cheerful inside the ring, when I came out, I was glad on the grounds that to me I realized I had won. At the point when they took me for doping, I was as yet glad. Just when I saw the web-based media and my mentor (Chhote Lal Yadav rehashed it to me), it soaked in that I have lost," she said.
"I had beaten this young lady twice before. I could hardly imagine how her hand was raised by the ref. No doubt about it, it hadn't struck me that I lost, I was so certain," she added.
