{"id":9902,"date":"2010-10-12T15:07:20","date_gmt":"2010-10-12T15:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2010\/10\/12\/i-should-have-won-medal-for-england\/"},"modified":"2010-10-12T15:07:20","modified_gmt":"2010-10-12T15:07:20","slug":"i-should-have-won-medal-for-england","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2010\/10\/12\/i-should-have-won-medal-for-england\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I should have won medal for England\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3>Haroon Khan hits out at GB selectors as he secures boxing bronze<\/h3>\n<div><strong>BOXER Haroon Khan bowed out of the Commonwealth Games in Delhi\u00a0with a bronze medal \u2013 but claimed he should have won it for England and not Pakistan.<\/strong><\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Haroon, younger brother of WBA world champion Amir, switched allegiance to Pakistan after he was snubbed for the games by GB boxing chiefs. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>But despite a promising start in the games he was beaten in the semi-final stage by accomplished Indian boxer Suranjoy Mayengbam.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>&#8220;My main aim was to come here and stand on that podium. I&#8217;ve got the bronze. I can put it next to my brother&#8217;s Olympic silver,&#8221; he said. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>But he added: &#8220;I think I&#8217;ve proved my point to the selectors. There wasn&#8217;t a British boxer in my category in the semi-finals. I would love to see the selectors now. I should have won that medal for England.&#8221; <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>&#8220;My aim was to come here and stand on that podium and I&#8217;ve got the bronze medal \u2013 it means so much to me. I&#8217;m sure my family&#8217;s so happy with that. Now I can put my medal next to Amir&#8217;s Olympic silver medal.&#8221; <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Khan said he was still aiming to compete in the London Olympics in 2012, again for Pakistan. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Haroon Khan hits out at GB selectors as he secures boxing bronze BOXER Haroon Khan bowed out of the Commonwealth Games in Delhi\u00a0with a bronze medal \u2013 but claimed he should have won it for England and not Pakistan. &#13; Haroon, younger brother of WBA world champion Amir, switched allegiance to Pakistan after he was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9902\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}