China’s amateur weightlifters fight ‘short and fat’ stigma
By AFP
08 August 2021 |
10:27 am
In a Shanghai basement gym, amateur weightlifters strain under two loads: the steel bars and plates that they lift, and a stigma rooted in the Chinese belief that the sport leaves its practitioners stunted and fat.
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