Indian weightlifter Mirabai Chanu has earned loads of plaudits from all all over the world after scripting historical past on the Tokyo Olympics on Saturday (July 24) by bringing dwelling a silver medal within the ladies’s 49kg weightlifting class. In the method, Mirabai grew to become simply the second feminine athlete from India to win an Olympic Games silver medal after shuttler PV Sindhu. Mirabai additionally ended a 21-year wait from a weightlifting after Karnam Malleswari’s bronze on the 2000 Sydney Olympics.
Mirabai couldn’t cease smiling as she devoured the second after clinching the primary medal for the nation on the Olympics. A good hug together with her coach was adopted by slightly dance earlier than she was topped on the rostrum. The champion lifter from Manipur later revealed that she has restricted her weight-reduction plan sufficient over the previous couple of years, particularly after a disappointing 2016 Rio Olympics marketing campaign, the place she failed to register even a single authorized carry. Mirabai revealed stated she shall be treating herself to ‘pizza’ to have a good time this historic triumph.
“The first thing I will do is have a pizza. I love pizza’s and I haven’t had one in a while,” Chanu was quoted as saying by NDTV.
Domino’s India had been fast to react after Chanu revealed her love for pizza and promised the star weightlifter free supply of pizzas for lifetime to honour her triumph.
“She said it, we heard it We never want @mirabai_chanu to wait to eat Slice of pizza again so we’re treating her to FREE Domino’s pizza for life! #PizzasForLife,” Domino’s India wrote in a tweet.
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We by no means need @mirabai_chanu to wait to eat once more so we’re treating her to FREE Domino’s pizza for life! #PizzasForLife— dominos_india (@dominos_india) July 24, 2021
The weightlifter devoted her elusive medal to the nation and thanked the countrymen for their assist. “I won the first medal at Tokyo Olympics yesterday. I want to dedicate this medal to all my countrymen, it’s because of them that I have won this medal. I want to thank every Indian for their prayers and support,” Mirabai stated in a video message on Sunday (July 25).
