WE WERE JITTERY ABOUT ASIAD CHANCES: INDIAN BOXERS

New Delhi November 29:             They have returned with an impressive haul of seven medals, including an unprecedented couple of golds, but Indian boxers were a "jittery" lot before the Asian Games due to "lack of practice and recovery time" in the build-up to the event. Indian boxers clinched two gold, three silver and two bronze medals at the Asiad. This was for the first time that Indian boxers pulled off two gold medals in the Games -- through Vijender Singh (75kg) and the 18-year-old sensation Vikas Krishan (60kg). Vikas and Vijender's golds are also first Asiad boxing golds for India since the 1998 Games when Dingko Singh clinched the yellow metal. "Frankly, I was skeptical about what the results would be like.