The questions below are from class 6,Ch - Mary Kom never say die.
1) What was Mary's inspiration ?
2) How did she train herself ?
3) Describe Mary's life before the Olympics win ?
Answers
Answer:
Answer 1:Whether or not Mary was influenced by Dippel's story, the premise for Frankenstein seems to have been lurking in her subconscience. In her 1831 preface to the novel, she attributed her inspiration to a nightmare she had at Geneva, where the company spent their evenings terrifying each other with chilling stories.
Answer 2:“I start my training session with a 14 km run. Then I do some stretching, skipping and floor exercises before moving on to shadow boxing, punching bag and speed bag. ... This is followed by a small run to cool down, and light stretching,” she told Hindustan Times.
Answer 3:Mangte Chungneijang Mary Kom (born 24 November 1982[1]) is an Indian amateur boxer, politician, and incumbent Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha.[2][3][4] She is the only female to become World Amateur Boxing champion for a record six times, the only female boxer to have won a medal in each one of the first seven World Championships, and the only boxer (male or female) to win eight World Championship medals.[5][6][7][8] Nicknamed Magnificent Mary, she is the only Indian female boxer to have qualified for the 2012 Summer Olympics, competing in the flyweight (51 kg) category and winning a bronze medal.[9] She had also been ranked as the world's No. 1 female light-flyweight by the International Boxing Association (amateur) (AIBA).[10][11] She became the first Indian female boxer to win a gold medal in the Asian Games in 2014 at Incheon, South Korea and is the first Indian female boxer to win gold at the 2018 Commonwealth Games.[12] She is also the only boxer to become Asian Amateur Boxing Champion for a record six times.[13][14]On 25 April 2016, the President of India nominated Kom as a member of the Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Indian parliament.[15] In March 2017, the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports, Government of India, appointed Mary Kom along with Akhil Kumar as national observers for boxing.[16]
After her sixth world title in 2018, the Government of Manipur has conferred on her the title "Meethoi Leima", loosely translated as great or exceptional lady in a felicitation ceremony held in Imphal on 11 December 2018. At the function, the then Chief Minister of Manipur also declared that the stretch of road leading to the National Games village in Imphal West district, where Kom currently resides, would be named as MC Mary Kom Road.[17][18] She was awarded the Padma Vibhushan, India's second highest civilian award, in 2020.[19][20]
Explanation:
1 ans- It was the success of Dingko Singh that inspired her to switch from athletics to boxing in 2000. She started her training under her first coach K. Kosana Meitei in Imphal. When she was 15, she took the decision to leave her hometown to study at the Sports Academy in the state capital Imphal.