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I am hungrier after missing Olympics twice: Jai Bhagwan

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Press Trust of India New Delhi

Bhagwan, who missed the 2004 Athens and 2008 Beijing Games, finally succeeded in getting a ticket to London after reaching the quarterfinals of the World Championship last year in Azerbaijan.

The 60kg boxer said that he doesn't want to waste the opportunity, and has been training with a personal coach.

"I am happy I qualified. I missed twice and I want to make it count this time, I want to show the world. I think I am more hungry now after missing out twice," Bhagwan told reporters on the sidelines of a send-off function here.

"We were given personal coach to train. I was being trained by Jagdish Chandraji. When you train in group, sometimes you can't use your favourite punch, but in individual training you can sharpen your favourite punch."

 

Bhagwan said that he doesn't want to take anyone lightly as the competition is more tough in his category.

"60kg is such a category which is found in most countries. It is tough... Vietnam and even in Europe, you can get a 60 kg category boxer. So competition is very tough and I don't want to take anyone lightly so that I don't regret later. I want to give my 110 per cent," he said.

According to the 26-year-old, qualifying early gave him enough time to work on his weakness.

"I qualified at World Championship, so got more time to train and work on my weakness. It was a long time of 6-7 months. I worked on my right punches," he said. MORE

  

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First Published: Jul 12 2012 | 5:05 PM IST

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