MICHAEL REAMS stood a few inches in front of my barbell. My job was to lift the bar from the floor over my head into a squat — without hitting him. I quaked a little inside. But Reams is not someone ...

When Mirabai Chanu steps on the dais to make her first lift in the Tokyo Olympics, she will also be lifting a billion expectations with it. What are these expectations? The hope is that she can end ...

She has won nearly every accolade the sport has to offer, but Tokyo Olympics silver-medallist weightlifter Mirabai Chanu remains in relentless pursuit of one elusive milestone — the 90kg snatch lift.

Mirabai Chanu has been a frontrunner in the women's 49kg category for years but with an increasing number of weightlifters breaching the elusive 90kg mark, the pressure is mounting on the Tokyo ...