Boxing would have been dead in Sri Lanka if Dian Gomes had not ignited the Olympic dream and kept the flame alive by giving dynamic leadership during the past two decades with his strategic planning, visionary zeal and love for the sport. After the doping disgrace at the 2010 Delhi Commonwealth Games, boxing plunged to the lowest depths with fingers being pointed at Sri Lanka’s boxing chief who could have walked away from the sport hanging his head in shame. But you can’t keep a good man down for long and like a true champion he shrugged off detractors to rise phoenix-like to bask in the glory of the 2018 Gold Coast Commonwealth Games where Sri Lanka’s pugilists won three bronze medals to end a 68-year-long wait.
After the doping disgrace at the 2010 Delhi Commonwealth Games, boxing plunged to the lowest depths with fingers being pointed at Sri Lanka’s boxing chief who could have walked away from the sport hanging his head in shame. But you can’t keep a good man down for long and like a true champion he shrugged off detractors to rise phoenix-like to bask in the glory of the 2018 Gold Coast Commonwealth Games where Sri Lanka’s pugilists won three bronze medals to end a 68-year-long wait.
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