{"id":38546,"date":"2018-08-07T12:39:06","date_gmt":"2018-08-07T12:39:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=38546"},"modified":"2018-08-07T12:39:06","modified_gmt":"2018-08-07T12:39:06","slug":"mirabai-chanu-pulls-out-of-asian-games-due-to-back-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/mirabai-chanu-pulls-out-of-asian-games-due-to-back-injury\/","title":{"rendered":"Mirabai Chanu pulls out of Asian Games due to back injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>World Champion weightlifter Mirabai Chanu on Tuesday pulled out of the Asian Games after failing to recover from a lower back injury, which is yet to be fully diagnosed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yes, Mirabai will not be taking part in the Asian Games,&#8221; Indian Weightlifting Federation Secretary Sahdev Yadav said.<\/p>\n<p>The decision comes in the wake of national coach Vijay Sharma recommendation that the Commonwealth gold-medallist must pull out of Jakarta event from August 18 to be fit for the Olympic qualifiers, later this year.<\/p>\n<p>The reigning CWG champion is struggling with an unidentified lower-back problem since May and is yet to begin full-fledged weight training. When pain subsided last week, Mirabai travelled to Mumbai to get treated and resume weight training. However, the 23-year-old felt discomfort again, prompting Sharma to recommend to the federation that she pull out to avoid aggravating the injury ahead of the Olympic qualifiers. &#8220;The Olympic qualifiers event is approaching and that is more important than the Asian Games,&#8221; Sharma had said.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World Champion weightlifter Mirabai Chanu on Tuesday pulled out of the Asian Games after failing to recover from a lower back injury, which is yet to be fully diagnosed. &#8220;Yes, Mirabai will not be taking part in the Asian Games,&#8221; Indian Weightlifting Federation Secretary Sahdev Yadav said. The decision comes in the wake of national [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38547,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38546"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38548,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38546\/revisions\/38548"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}