Former India wrestler Vinesh Phogat arrived in New Delhi on Saturday, following her disqualification from the just-concluded Paris Olympics 2024. Vinesh landed on the Indira Gandhi Worldwide Airport on Saturday, August 17, with hundreds gathered exterior to welcome her. Vinesh’s relations, together with her mom, had arrived on the airport hours earlier than the wrestler’s arrival. In view of Vinesh Phogat coming to India on Saturday, safety was tightened on the Indira Gandhi Worldwide Airport. Vinesh can also be scheduled to depart for her village, Balali, later within the day.
Upon her arrival, hundreds, together with fellow wrestlers Bajrang Punia and Sakshi Malik, gathered on the airport to welcome her. In a viral video, Vinesh broke down in tears seeing her household and shut ones.
“I thank all of the countrymen, I’m very lucky,” mentioned Vinesh.
#WATCH | Indian wrestler Vinesh Phogat breaks down as she arrives at Delhi’s IGI Airport from Paris after collaborating within the #Olympics2024Paris. pic.twitter.com/ec73PQn7jG
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Vinesh had assured India of a medal after reaching the ultimate of the Ladies’s 50kg occasion on the Paris Olympics 2024. Nonetheless, in a heartbreaking twist of story, Vinesh was disqualified for being 100 grams chubby through the second weigh-in on the day of her gold-medal match. She had additionally requested to be awarded a joint silver medal, however her plea was rejected by the Court docket of Arbitration for Sport (CAS).
On the eve of her arrival in India, Vinesh had expressed her deep sorrow over lacking out on the Olympic podium, linking her private disappointment to the broader wrestle for girls’s rights in India, which she had championed in her protests towards the previous wrestling federation chief.
In a three-page letter posted on social media platform X (previously Twitter) on Friday night time, Phogat hinted at a potential return to the game sooner or later, leaving the door barely ajar regardless of her earlier determination to retire.
The circumstances resulting in Phogat’s disqualification have been detailed by her coach, Woller Akos, who described the extreme efforts made to assist her meet the burden requirement. Akos, who coached Phogat through the Paris Video games, revealed in a now-deleted Fb put up that the night time earlier than the ultimate weigh-in, the wrestler underwent a grueling and harmful weight-cutting course of.
“After the semi-final, 2.7 kg of extra weight was left; we exercised for one hour and twenty minutes, however 1.5 kg nonetheless remained. Later, after 50 minutes of sauna, not a drop of sweat appeared on her. There was no selection left, and from midnight to five:30 within the morning, she labored on completely different cardio machines and wrestling strikes, about three-quarters of an hour at one go, with two-three minutes of relaxation. Then she began once more. She collapsed, however by some means we obtained her up, and he or she spent an hour within the sauna,” Akos wrote in a now deleted Fb put up, including, “I do not deliberately write dramatic particulars, however I solely keep in mind considering that she may die.”
(With IANS Inputs)
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