{"id":855292,"date":"2026-08-12T11:12:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T11:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/855292\/"},"modified":"2026-08-12T11:12:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T11:12:12","slug":"boxing-taught-me-never-to-accept-defeat-sakshi-chaudhary-off-the-field-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/855292\/","title":{"rendered":"Boxing taught me never to accept defeat: Sakshi Chaudhary | Off the field News"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Boxing Fourteen years ago, an 11-year-old with more energy than she knew what to do with, watched Vijender Singh box on television and decided to try it herself. Last week in Glasgow, at her first Commonwealth Games, Sakshi Chaudhary<\/a> beat England\u2019s Ruby White 5-0 in the women\u2019s 51kg final \u2014 a unanimous decision, and India\u2019s newest boxing gold.It came down to three rounds in Glasgow, and she is still processing it. \u201cIt meant a lot to me. I have been playing for 14 years, and I have won a gold medal for my country,\u201d she says. \u201cI am feeling very good.\u201dThose 14 years began with no ambition at all. \u201cI was young and very naughty,\u201d she says of the girl who first walked into a gym at 11. \u201cTo channelise my energy, I started boxing.\u201d What came after, in her own description, was a roller-coaster \u2014 golds in some years, losses in others, and then a shoulder injury that cost her all of 2023 and pushed her out of major competition altogether. It was somewhere in that stretch that Virat Kohli sponsored her for three years. \u201cI have been very influenced by him,\u201d she says. \u201cI like his journey and everything about him. As an athlete, I take inspiration from him.\u201dThe turn came in December 2022, when she joined the Indian Army. She now trains at the Army Sports Institute in Pune, which she rates as the best boxing programme in the country. \u201cI say very proudly that I am in the Indian Army. The discipline there helps you become an athlete,\u201d she says. \u201cThe coaches train us individually, and our sparring partners are boys, so my game improved a lot after joining.\u201dThat discipline is not an abstraction. It is a timetable that runs from waking to sleeping, training, rest, meals, and a diary written at the same hour every evening. \u201cDiscipline comes above everything in my life,\u201d she says. It showed at Glasgow, where no bout came close; she won her fights and won them clearly. But she has a method for the ones that turn. \u201cI motivate myself that I have to come back, that I have to change my strategy,\u201d she says. In the seconds between rounds, the coaches call out what isn\u2019t working, and she adjusts.Next is the Asian Games in Japan, and another gold. Beyond that sits the ambition every boxer eventually names: the 2028 Olympics. But ask what the sport has actually given her, and the answer is not a medal.\u201cNever accept defeat,\u201d she says. \u201cYou will be down sometimes, you will lose sometimes and win sometimes, but you must not give up. That is what boxing taught me.\u201d\"Sakshi<\/p>\n

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