Dream of boxing gold lives on as Dian be­gins third term

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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