00:00Every human being is a little different.
00:02Every human being is going to be a little different
00:05from weight, from weight loss.
00:07Males are different from females.
00:08Age makes a difference.
00:09All this makes a difference.
00:11What's also important to remember is that
00:13usually you have a normal or a natural weight
00:16and that's your normal natural weight
00:18and you can cut that down.
00:19And typically till February of 24
00:24she was participating in the 53 kilogram weight.
00:27So normally an athlete or a wrestler like her
00:31will be about 55-56 and will go to the 53 weight
00:34and that's the normal sort of process.
00:36And she was very comfortable with that process
00:38but from February because that category
00:41had already been occupied
00:43and as you know if only one wrestler from a country
00:46can go into one weight category.
00:48So since that weight category was already taken
00:51by another wrestler, she had two options.
00:53Either she cuts her weight down tremendously
00:55and tries to go to the 50 category
00:57or she goes a weight up.
00:59But if she goes a weight up
01:00she's going to be wrestling with much stronger athletes
01:04and she felt that that would be of no point
01:06because she's not going to be successful there.
01:08So after considering everything
01:09and she took quite a lot of time to decide
01:11which would be the best option for her.
01:13She and her team took the call
01:15that they're going to go for the 50 kilogram weight category
01:18and I think it was a good decision
01:20because as you can see she beat the reigning champion
01:24in that first round
01:25and she was able to achieve that.
01:27Now since February that she's been participating
01:30in this 50 kilogram weight category
01:33this of course happens.
01:34Now athletes when they're training
01:37you don't want to keep them at 50
01:39because if they're below their natural weight
01:41there's a high chance of injuries taking place.
01:43So this is a sport with a lot of injuries
01:45and you have to really fine tune and balance it.
01:48So your weight is slightly higher when you're training
01:50but when the process of competition comes
01:53then you drop your weight
01:54and you drop your weight
01:55and it's relatively easier to do it for that first weigh-in
01:58because you have enough time for that.
02:00But it depends also on how your bouts go on that first day.
02:04If you had just one bout
02:06then it would have been no problem at all
02:08because then you have enough time to recover.
02:10But if you have had to go through three bouts
02:13and each of those bouts is difficult
02:15and you have to hydrate yourself
02:16otherwise you're going to collapse out there
02:18then you're going to have to do everything that you can do
02:20to participate well that day
02:22and then take the next challenge.
