new delhi indian boxing has been doing fairly well at the international stage recently the junior pugilists won 39 medals including 15 gold at the asian youth junior boxing championships in amman jordanback home the boxers were felicitated at the capital by the sports authority of india and boxing federation of india bfi on wednesday toi caught up with bfi president ajay singh in an exclusive conversation on different issues related to indian boxingexcerptswhat is your fair assessment about what went wrong at the tokyo olympicsbefore covid hit us we were doing exceptionally well at the commonwealth asian any global level championship a part of what went wrong at the olympics was due to the lack of preparation due to the covid we first tried to train in india under a lot of restrictions then we tried and sent them overseas just before the olympics i think there was a gap in that entire process also we had peaked the year before the entire plan of the federation was to make our top boxers peak for 2020 the olympics never happened in 2020 i know we got one medal in tokyo my fair assessment is we at least shouldve got two more medalshow do you handle a boxer like amit panghal who has won a world championship silver but failed miserably at the olympics so that he is in the right frame of mind for future championshipssimply he has to get it in his mind that he is no longer our star boxer no more the star status you are there with everybody and you box with everybody i hope there is an increased amount of competition in his weight category there is deepak hooda he is excellent from my perspective send amit for one tournament and then send deepak for the next theyve to go side by side both have to keep on fighting each other from now onwards there will be trials for everyone no one is going to get any special treatment even olympic medallist lovlina has had to undergo trials to get selected in the squad for world championships and asian gameswhat are your plans to make sure indian boxing remains a force at the international level in the futurewe are looking to rejig our domestic championship structure today the competition structure is such that youve very limited number of people who can get to the top in the national championship one boxer from each weight category from a state participates but a state like haryana or assam has 45 boxers in a weight category who are exceptionally good almost as good as the no1 guy those people never show up at a national championship because weve only one boxer so were trying to create an open championship structure a national open championship state open championship district open championship so that anybody who wants to box can come and showcase their skillsis there any league or bigticket event to be organised by bfi in