From 100gms in morning to 1000gms late at night, India's sorrow tale continues

WATCHING a 49kg women's weightlifting is bizarre and stupefying.

- INDRANEEL DAS

The bar weighs 20kg and is as tall as the women competing at the event. The weight they lift is more than the body weight in clean and jerk and in snatch is about a shade less than double.

A 4 ft 9 inches and 49kg frame doesn't look like hauling a 20kg bucket, let alone 88kg in snatch at the Paris South Arena on Wednesday. Tokyo Olympic silver medallist Miraba Chanu's target was to lift a good snatch.