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What has made Mirabai such a successful weightlifter is largely her clean and jerk lift - where innate strength is much more important than technique - think the difference between a batsman who can play a late cut for four and another who can slog sweep for six at will. Her best ratio - 85kg snatch and 109kg clean and jerk (a ratio of 77.98 percent) came at the 2017 World Championships, where she won gold in the absence of China. At the 2019 Asian Championships, her snatch (86kg) was 76.1 percent of her clean and jerk of 113kg. At the 2021 Asian Championships, where she won bronze, Mirabai's snatch of 86kg was just 72 percent of her clean and jerk - a world record 119kg. Mirabai, on the other hand, has often found herself having to make up for ground she's lost in the snatch event. At the 2019 Asian Championships where once again she won gold, Zhihui lifted 92kg in the snatch - around 78 percent of the 116kg she lifted in the clean and jerk. China's Hou Zhihui, the favourite for gold and Mirabai's primary contender in Tokyo, lifted 96kg in the snatch - about 82 percent of her clean and jerk lift of 117kg - at this year's Asian Championships. Among elite weightlifters the ideal ratio is that the snatch lift should be between 78 to 82 percent of the clean and jerk. And like Rio, much will depend on how she starts in the snatch event. In Tokyo, Mirabai Chanu will have her chance of redemption. My teammate and coach kept telling me that I would have another chance but I've never had a worse feeling than that moment," she says. "I cried all the way from the stadium to my room.
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It was the lowest period of Mirabai's professional career. That result seemed to have a chilling effect on the rest of the contingent too - it was only in the final couple of days that India got their only two medals of the Games. It's like preparing a speech for several years and when you go on the stage, you have forgotten your lines," she recalls. I didn't know what I was supposed to do there. But when I had to do it, everything went wrong. Tighten my back, focus on the second pull. "When I went to the platform, I knew what I was supposed to do. In the second half of the competition - the clean and jerk, Mirabai crashed out of the competition without a single clean lift. She failed in her first two lifts in snatch, and just about made her third attempt. Perhaps the pressure of competing in her first Olympics got to Mirabai.
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That prospect seemed even more of a certainty when the Chinese decided not to enter their gold medal favourite into the event. At Rio 2016, the then 21-year-old was once again competing on the first day of the Olympics, a favourite to finish on the podium then too. Competing on the first day of the Olympics, Mirabai knows that her first lift will determine not just how the rest of her competition goes but will also set the tone for India's overall campaign at Tokyo. This year, only the Chinese representative at the Olympics has lifted more than her in all competitions in the women's 49kg category. The numbers suggest that Mirabai, a former world champion in her discipline, should finish on the podium. Lifters know how much they are capable of lifting and what the rest of the field is. Weightlifting events rarely throw up surprises. She carries the additional pressure of knowing that she's one of India's strongest bets for an Olympic medal this year. That won't be the only burden on the shoulders of the 4'11", 49kg weightlifter from Imphal. When Mirabai Chanu steps up to make her first lift of the Tokyo Olympics, she will be prepared to lift over one and a half times her bodyweight off the ground in a single clean motion. Mirabai Chanu looks for Tokyo lift to ease Rio pain
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