Indian wrestler Vinesh Phogat returned to India on Saturday after her Paris Olympics 2024 marketing campaign and obtained an amazing reception from the group. Lots of of supporters had gathered outdoors the IGI airport in New Delhi to present a rousing welcome to Vinesh who was disqualified for being obese after reaching the 50kg ultimate on the Olympics. Vinesh’s enchantment towards her disqualification was additionally rejected by the ad-hoc division of the Court docket of Arbitration for Sport (CAS). Amid this grand welcome in Delhi, a really heartwarming second was captured from Vinesh’s native village in Haryana.
Upon arriving at Balali, Haryana, Vinesh hugged her uncle and mentor Mahavir Singh Phogat and the duo shared a really emotional second. Throughout Vinesh’s disqualification at Olympics, Mahavir was consistently extending help to Vinesh.
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This specific hug between the duo left all of the netizens and followers emotional.
On August 8, Vinesh penned an emotional to announce her resolution to retire from wrestling. Nevertheless, after seeing such heat reception from the followers, she said that she has bought the braveness to select up the threads and get on with life.
“As I bought love from my fellow Indians, my village and my members of the family, I suppose I might get some braveness to make this wound heal. Possibly, I might return to wrestling,” Vinesh instructed the media.
“I simply wish to say that lacking the Olympic medal is the most important wound in my life. I do not understand how a lot time it will take to heal this wound. I do not know if I might pursue wrestling or not however the form of braveness I bought right now (Saturday), I wish to use that in the appropriate path,” she added.
Vinesh and fellow Olympians Bajrang Punia and Sakshi Malik have been protesting for greater than a yr towards the Wrestling Federation of India and its former chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh for his alleged sexual harassment of girls grapplers.
“Our struggle has not ended and the struggle will proceed and I pray to god that the reality will prevail,” stated Vinesh.
(With PTI Inputs)
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