Paris Paralympics 2024: Google Doodle Celebrates Powerlifting With New Animated Artwork
The powerlifting events at the Paris Paralympics 2024 have started on September 4.
New Delhi: In a sweet gesture, Google updated its doodle on September 5 commemorating the powerlifting event at the continuing 2024 Paralympics in Paris, thus continuing its make stronger for the para-athletes. The doodle showed a chicken powerlifting on what appears like a loaf of bread at the ‘Arena Porte de La Chapelle’. This is never very to any extent further the first time Google has commemorated at the Paris Paralympics 2024. Earlier, Google paid tribute to wheelchair tennis on Day 2 of the competition with a doodle featuring animated birds.
As a protracted way as Indian powerlifters are concerned, Sakina Khatun and Parmjeet Kumar flattered to deceive, finishing seventh and eighth of their respective weight categories on Wednesday. The 35-year-old Sakina, the 2014 Commonwealth Games bronze medallist, may handle best one legal lift in her three attempts leading to an underwhelming best effort of 86kg within the ladies’s 45kg event at the La Chapelle Arena. She failed to lift 90kg and 92kg in her 2nd and third attempts respectively.
The 2018 Asian Para Games silver medallist, who had shriveled polio as just a bit one, had lifted 93kg in Tokyo Games three years ago. China’s Lingling Guo won the gold medal with a world record lift of 123kg. Competing within the men’s 49kg event, Paramjeet finished eighth within the nine-lifter field with a best effort of 150kg, which came in his first attempt.
Tormented by polio in both legs at the age of two, Paramjeet became confined to crutches, wheelchair, and a tricycle for movement since childhood. Like Khatun, the 2018 Asian Para Games bronze medallist, became also in a position to log in only one legal lift.
Powerlifting is open to athletes with an eligible physical impairment of their legs or hips, which would prohibit them from competing in in a position-bodied (standing) weightlifting. There may well be best one sport class in powerlifting, but the athletes compete in different weight categories.
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