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Birmingham, July 31 (IANS): Though she is called Mirabai Chanu 2.0 by people from her native state Manipur, Bindyarani Devi Sorokhaibam doesn’t idolise the celebrated Tokyo Olympic Games silver medallist. Instead, Bindyarani’s idol is the legendary Kunjarani Devi, a pioneer of Indian women’s weightlifting and one of the first woman lifters from the country to win medals at international level. “Though we come from the same state and from nearby towns around Imphal, I have no relationship with Mirabai Chanu. I did not follow her into weightlifting. I was inspired by Kunj...

Kudos to Olympic bronze medalist Lovlina Borgohain for exposing the dirty secrets of Indian sports, which is dominated by scandals, court cases, suspensions,

UPDATED: July 10, 2021 09:35 IST Photo by Dean Mouhtaropoulos/ Getty Images On April 17, India’s star weightlifter Saikhom Mirabai Chanu was on the verge of a most unpleasant moment of déjà vu. At the Asian Championship in Tashkent, the diminutive lifter from Manipur failed to nail a lift in the first two of her three attempts in the snatch. A third ‘no-lift’ would have ended Chanu’s medal hopes, a repeat of the horror show five years ago, at the Rio Olympics, where she crashed out after failing to lift the weight in any of her three attempts in the clean and jerk category.