Internet In Awe Of A Little Girl After She Mimicked Silver Medalist Mirabai Chanu's Olympic Win
An adorable video of a young fan imitating Mirabai Chanu's final weight lift and medal win has gone viral on social media.
Saikhom Mirabai Chanu recently made everyone in the country proud by winning India's first-ever silver medal weightlifting in women's 49kg category at the Tokyo Olympics 2020 and opened the Indian contingent's account in the 2020 edition of the Summer Olympics.
With her win, she became the second athlete to win an Olympic medal in weightlifting at the Summer Games after Karnam Malleswari bagged India's first weightlifting medal (bronze) in the Sydney Olympics 2000.
From celebrities to politicians, everyone took this opportunity to congratulate Chanu on this historic win. But among these famous people, there is a little fan who gave tribute to the silver medalist in her own way.
She made a video imitating Chanu's final weight lift and medal win that has gone viral on social media.
The video was posted by weightlifter and Commonwealth games gold medalist Sathish Sivalingam on Twitter who captioned the video, "Junior @mirabai_chanu this s called the inspiration."
Junior @mirabai_chanu this s called the inspiration pic.twitter.com/GKZjQLHhtQ
¡ª sathish sivalingam weightlifter (@imsathisholy) July 26, 2021
In the 30-second clip, the little fan can be seen imitating Chanu's final weightlift after rubbing some powder in her hands as actual footage of the weightlifter plays on the television in the background. The girl goes on to raise her hands while wearing a medal to imitate Chanu's victory. She then joins both of her hands and bows down to accept the win.
The clip surely did catch the attention of the Olympic silver medallist who shared the video and wrote, "So cute. Just love this."
Many people on the internet too loved this video and found it adorable.
Boss Baby! ???
¡ª Netflix India (@NetflixIndia) July 27, 2021
So good to see a child imitating an athlete and not bollywood item song dance! ?
¡ª ??? (@gn04) July 27, 2021
So cute. !!
¡ª India First ?? (@khushboosinha19) July 27, 2021
First time I m seeing a little girl immitating a person worth immitating. Otherwise it's only vulgar dances from Bollywood
¡ª Maddy (@madhavi_sathe) July 27, 2021
cute.
¡ª young achiever! (@kiritnatural) July 27, 2021
I've watched it some 10 times. Still can't get enough of it. More @mirabai_chanu 's will emerge thanks to her inspiring achievement.???
¡ª AlphaLifeCode ?? (@AlphaLifeCode) July 26, 2021
Awww this is so cute and absolutely love the idea instead of imitating some film star she is imitating real life star ???
¡ª Dipali Sharma (@dipali10sharma) July 27, 2021
People love the fact that a little girl is imitating a silver medalist rather than a Bollywood actor. The video has racked up over 2.4 lakh views on the microblogging platform, along with hundreds of comments.
Mirabai had to follow a strict regime and a very dedicated plan to win this medal. To prepare for the quadrennial competition, she denied herself from eating anything which seemed unhealthy and spoke about how she will now be able to eat her favourite pizza.
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