Summary:
The felicitation ceremony was twice interrupted when eager school kids ran up to the stage to get selfies with their hero. A felicitation ceremony had been organized for the Asian Games hero at Nehru Stadium, where he had started learning boxing as a kid. So, it was natural that when Amit finally arrived in Gurgaon, he was greeted with loud cheers and much fanfare. Even though Gurgaon boxer Amit Panghal had won the gold in his weight category at the Asian Games over two weeks ago, he hadn’t got the chance to visit his academy and coach in Gurgaon. It was at the boxing academy in Nehru Stadium that Amit started boxing at the age of 10 when he moved from his village to Gurgaon at his coach Anil Dhankar’s insistence..