When India sends its team of athletes to the 2021 Tokyo Olympics next year, boxer Amit Panghal will draw a lot of attention. A winner of five major international medals, which includes a silver at the World Championships and two golds at Asian Games and Asian Championships, the 24-year-old will head into his first-ever Olympics with a huge weight of expectations on his shoulders.
Ranked No 1 in the flyweight category of boxers, Panghal is the first pugilist from India after Vijender Singh to sit at the top of the AIBA rankings.
Many, including him, however, felt the postponement of the Olympics from 2020 to 2021 due to the Covid-19 pandemic would prove to be disadvantageous for Panghal who had gone from strength to strength in the build-up to the Games initially scheduled for 2020.
However, almost six months on from the development, Panghal feels the extra time for…
