New Delhi: “D.F.” In Rio de Janeiro five years ago, along with the name Mirabai Chanu in the last score of a 48kg women’s weightlifting competition, read the words, “not finished”.
Actually, it’s not like that.
Placed six in the final after completing the Snatch assignment, Mirabai, which was where did not need to dig in and rally.
One of the legitimate lifts in the range is preferred in the preferred and jerk and he can be on the podium.
But it’s also when everything breaks down.
Mirabai failed to record one elevator in three efforts to hit the competition.
Five of the six lifts are ruled invalid.
The images – Mirabai were sad, eyes glazed hidden behind his hand, the head of the national coach Vijay Sharma tried to comfort him but it was unsuccessful – still clear in memory.
And maybe, on Saturday, when Manipur’s lifter climbed to the Tokyo international forum arena, the pictures would blink before his eyes.
It can make it wither, or what can also mean that Mirabai gets the chance to bury the ghosts to free themselves from Rio’s beautiful memories.
So which Mirabai will appear on Saturday? Entering the Arena as World No.
2, world record in its name, gold world championship in Interim, Mirabai is expected to open the number of Indian medals in the 49kg category of women who change slightly.
In a brave movement, indicating his intention, on Friday, Mirabai entered the highest weight in the initial list distributed by official officials in Tokyo.
He stated to lift 210kg sensationally during his competitors, in front of all his closest competitors – Hou Zhihui China, the world No.
1, on the contrary, has chosen a safer and more conservative approach by offering a maximum of 205kg.
Is aggressive tactics Mirabai will serve its feelings well to see.
He had to plan his reach smartly in both clean and jerk and snatch.
Given that there is an exception of 20kg rather than the maximum weights listed, he must try at least lift 190kg on his first chance to set the tone for the rest of the competition.
But then, there have been extraordinary changes to the Mirabai approach since Rio’s disappointment.
A year after the DNF, there was no historic gold in the world championship which was overlapped with Gold Commonwealth Gold in 2018.
In clean and Jerk, Mirabai now holds a world record with an 119kg elevator recorded in Tashkent during the Asian championship.
The delay of the Olympics last year also helped Mirabai work on back injuries and his repeated shoulders in the US.
He is ready to be abolished on the podium in Tokyo but must be careful for Chinese Nemesis Hou Zhihui, Delacruz Jourdan Elizabeth, Indonesia Windy Cantika and Belgium’s Stickx Nina.
Like Zhihui China, Cantika (203kg), Elizabeth (200kg) and Nina (199kg) have shown a careful approach in the weight of their initial list on Friday.
At the Asian championship in Tashkent in April, Zhihui has raised a total of 213kg for gold – 96kg in seizing and 117kg in clean and jerk.
In the same meeting, where he won bronze, Mirabai could manage 86kg in seizing but emerged with the 119kg world record elevator in clean and jerk because a total of 205kg, was still eight Zhihui efforts.
Cantika and Elizabeth were also in front of Indians.
Mirabai’s best snatch is 88kg.