Question

Mary Kom prepared rigorously to win many championships. Read the text again and make a list of various things done by Kom regarding her preparations.

• Variety of preparations
• Diet
• Focus

Answer 1

• Variety of preparations:
  1. participating in boxing championships at an early age
  2. training well with coach Charles Atkinson
  3. sparring with male boxers for practice
• Diet:
  1. working on gaining weight by eating healthy food.
• Focus:
  1. staying focused in spite of various external challenges (e.g. coach Charles Atkinson being disallowed to accompany Mary Kom during the Olympics, being the only female representative in boxing from India).
  2. keeping a positive attitude despite dodgy decisions and defeats.