The Phogat sisters are wrestlers from Haryana whose story inspired the film *Dangal*; the Haryana *akhada* refers to traditional wrestling schools there, often mud pits. Women's freestyle weight classes are set by United World Wrestling, but at the grassroots, we see the real struggle is fitting regional competition structures into those neat categories. From my desk in Delhi, pushing funding to districts, I see how a champion’s weight is often decided as much by what she can afford to eat as by the rulebook. The obvious answer is the international system, but my life is the mountain of requests for better diet allowances that cross my desk.
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