The 35-year-old gold medallist, MC Mary Kom who says she is far from relinquishing the queendom. She has carved out for herself in all these years. The Olympic bronze medalist, the five-time world champion and newly-crowned Commonwealth Games champion today put to rest speculations around possible retirement from boxing, which gained credence after she added the CWG gold to her glowing list of achievements.

The 35-year-old boxer, MC Mary Kom said “I have never talked about my retirement from my favorite sport, they were just rumours. Even I was shocked when I heard about my retirement,” Mary Kom told reporters in the nation’s capital as India’s boxing team returned from the Gold Coast with three gold, three silver and three bronze medals. She has won almost everything but not winning one Olympic gold rankles. “An Olympic gold is what I am still dreaming. That remains an unfulfilled dream.”

She was upset to miss out on a wild card entry for the Rio 2016 Olympics. She seemed to have got worked up, when a question on calling it quits and age was put to her, but Mary Kom ended up managing it pretty well, often having the audience in splits and, in a lighter vein, also challenging the scribe for a fight.

 “This (age issue) should be taken out of the mind. I will know when my body will not allow me to carry on this for long.” ‘Magnificent Mary’, who is a mother of three children, conceded she had a busy schedule as a professional athlete, parent and lawmaker — but warned her opponents against assuming she had too much on her plate.