- Saturday, April 20, 2024
By: Sarwar Alam
India‘s bid to win their first Asian Games gold medal in weightlifting suffered a major jolt with women’s 48kg world champion Mirabai Chanu pulling out of the competition with a back injury. Expectation has been high since the Manipuri lifter added Commonwealth Games gold in April to her 2017 world championship triumph but a spinal spasm will keep the 24-year-old out of the Games in Indonesia beginning on Aug. 18. “Owing to the severe back pain, entry… has been withdrawn,” Indian Weightlifting Federation secretary general Sahdev Yadav said in a statement, adding the lifter was undergoing a rehabilitation programme. Chief national…
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