Former Olympic bronze medallist Yogeshwar Dutt acknowledged that taking retirement is a private name of an athlete and referred to as it the “saddest” a part of a participant’s profession, following grappler Sakshi Malik’s retirement announcement from wrestling. Olympic medalist Sakshi, who was one of many faces of wrestlers’ protest in opposition to former WFI president Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh over sexual harassment allegations, on Thursday introduced that she is quitting wrestling after Brij Bhushan’s aide Sanjay Singh was elected as the brand new president of the federation.
“Taking retirement is a private name of an athlete, however I’ll say that it is rather unhappy for a participant to depart their sport in any scenario or situation. Taking retirement is the saddest a part of their profession as a result of they offer their life to the sport and earn recognition in addition to respect due to it. It’s their choice in addition to it is determined by time,” Yogeshwar instructed ANI.
Sakshi, distraught and emotional, broke down as she left the venue following a press convention within the nationwide capital after asserting her retirement.
Sakshi’s mom Sudesh Malik talked about her daughter’s choice to retire and acknowledged that it’s a loss for the whole nation.
“It’s the saddest day not just for my household however for the whole nation. She was on the street for 40 days due to sexual harassment, due to that struggle a brand new federation was set to be fashioned and now these folks have come again once more. Sakshi liked wrestling it’s going to take time for her to get previous it. She needed to deliver another medal, she was working arduous so this dream was damaged and it’s a huge loss for our century,” Sudesh instructed ANI.
Throughout the media interplay, the famend wrestler put her sneakers on the desk on the press convention as she introduced her choice to give up wrestling.
“We slept for 40 days on the roads and lots of people from a number of elements of the nation got here to help us. If Brij Bhushan Singh’s enterprise associate and an in depth aide is elected because the president of WFI, I give up wrestling,” she mentioned, accompanied by another wrestlers who had been a part of the protest.
“We have now made calls for for a girl president. If the president could be a girl, harassment wouldn’t occur. However, there was no participation of ladies earlier and as we speak you may see the record, not even a single girl was given a place. We had fought with full power however this struggle will proceed. The wrestlers of the brand new era need to struggle,” she added.
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