2017 African championships lightweight gold medalist, Nicholas Okongo Okoth, is on a mission to prove his wife wrong at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, United States.
The Mathare-born boxer told Capital Sports that his wife criticized his past performances and requested him not to come back home empty-handed.
Okoth will thus seek to make his wife and the country proud in the games which start on Saturday, July 28 to Monday, August 8.
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“When I went home to pick some stuff after we broke camp, my wife told me ‘Nick you have trained well this time don’t try to come up with excuses'.
"I didn’t even know what to tell her. I just laughed. The only way to silence her is to bring a medal home,” a jovial Okoth promised.
At the last edition staged in Gold Coast Australia, the 39-year-old was eliminated in the first round by Trinidad and Tobago’s Michael Alexander.
Okoth, who has previously represented Kenya at the 2008 Beijing and 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games, further added that he is motivated and will do his best to win a medal.
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“I feel really psyched up and ready. I don’t even know where I am drawing this motivation from but I feel ready,”
“I started to focus on my bout since we touched down. I have trained really well and I feel alright. Boxing is not like football where I can pass to a teammate. It is all about me. I want to give my all,” disclosed Okoth.
Apart from Okoth, other boxers who will represent Kenya at the Club Games include Shaffi Bakari, Christine Ongare and Elizabeth Andiego.
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