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Blockade shuts Mary Kom's academy
Indian Express | Thu Oct 06 2011, 00:05 hrs
Five-time world champion boxer Mary Kom has more on her mind than just the Olympics, for which she will start training in Delhi next week. She has temporarily shut down her free boxing academy in Imphal because she could no longer sustain it amid Manipur’s economic blockade.
“There are 23 boxing students whom we train here. The idea behind the academy when I set it up was to find talent among Manipur’s poor families, the underprivileged. Boxing has done wonders for me and I was hoping for the same for them,” says Kom, at the cottage gifted by the state government after she won her first championship, and from where she runs the academy.
The Manipuri Regional Boxing Foundation has sent three of her trainees to Patiala where a championship is on currently. She has built a makeshift shed where she keeps boxing and gym equipment. Classes are free; the academy has hired a coach. The girls would stay in her house, the boys in a home nearby.
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