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Tokyo Olympic Games:  A couple of days before the start of the weightlifting competitions at 19th Asian Games, host China suffered a setback as it will be competing without the world’s strongest female weightlifter, who has pulled out of the Asian Games due to an elbow injury.

China’s super-heavyweight Olympic champion and world record holder Li Wenwen withdrew from the Asian Games on Thursday at the final verification of entries for the competition, which runs from September 30 to October 7.

Li sustained the injury during the recent World Championships in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, where she failed to make a total. Her absence leaves China with a team of 13 in Hangzhou: six women and seven men.