PETALING JAYA: Veteran powerlifter Mariappan Perumal wants to leave the sports stage with a bang and he will be making a final push for the gold medal in the 2008 Paralympics in Beijing.
The unemployed 48-year-old father of three children said that he was prepared to make the sacrifices to fulfil a golden dream after returning home twice with the bronze from the Paralympics in Seoul (1988) and Barcelona (1992).
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