India, July 26 -- When things get hazy in the mind, Parveen Hooda gets down to writing in her diary. Around mid-2025, while the boxer was serving a doping suspension due to a whereabouts failure, she could neither see a road ahead nor figure out why she kept training.

And so, she went back to her diary, spelling out her main targets for the next few years. "For 2026, I wrote Commonwealth Games and Asian Games - that I have to be there and represent the country again," she said.

When Hooda, 26, steps on the ring at the Glasgow Commonwealth Games (CWG) on Tuesday for her opening 65kg bout, she will be doing just that. After a gap of three years in a multi-sport event.

"It has been a long, painful wait," she told HT from Glasgow.

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