“Just yesterday I also told you to try to play to earn a gold medal that Mr. Ba”, the player Trinh Thi Diem Kieu shared shortly after the boxing at the 31st SEA Games.
Talk together Thethao.vnan official of the Military Sports Union said: “Diem Kieu's brother in his hometown of Quang Ngai died of accident, enjoyed 37 years old.
Before the 31st SEA Games, Diem Kieu was one of the two candidates playing for the Vietnamese delegation in Boxing weighing 48kg women. The other candidate is Nguyen Thi Thu Nhi, the boxer who owns the World WBO championship. When closing the list of the team participating in the 31st SEA Games, the Vietnamese boxing team decided to choose Kieu to play.
At the SEA Games, Diem Kieu played very well in the semi -finals when defeating Myanmar boxer Aye Nyein Htoo. This achievement helps the Vietnamese boxing team achieve the final results in all 4 weight classes of women. In the match of HCV, Kieu lost to Thai boxer Chuchamat Raksat and won the final gold medal.
Immediately after Boxing SEA Games 31 closed, Kieu quickly returned to clean up his belongings and took a flight back to Quang Ngai in the morning of 23/5. After fulfilling the national obligations, now that Kieu returns to fulfill the fate of a child and younger brother in the family.
Earlier in the 31st SEA Games, the “golden opening” boxer for the Vietnamese sports delegation, To Thi Trang, also suffered from losing relatives. One day after Trang won the gold medal in Kurash, her father died of getting worse. During the process of gathering with the Kurash team in Vietnam, her family hid her news because she did not want to affect the psychology of the female boxer.