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Star weightlifter Saikhom Mirabai Chanu added another feather to her cap earlier this month in Bogota when the 2020 Olympics silver medallist bagged a World Weightlifting Championships silver medal too in her favoured 49kg category.This was her second medal on the stage as she became a World Champion back in 2017 in the USA. But it won’t be wrong to say that the value of this silver is perhaps bigger than her 2017 triumph and may as well dwarf her Tokyo success too.And that’s down to the highly competitive field that the 28-year-old Indian athlete came up against two Chinese heavyweights in reigning Olympic Champion Hou Zhihui and three-time World Champion Jiang Huihua.The Olympics rule of allowing one lifter per nation meant Mirabai had a headache less in Tokyo. In 2017, none of the Chinese were there to worry her with the International Weightlifting Federation’s ban on China among nine nations.“Olympics se World Championship tough hai (World Championship is tougher than Olymp