Legendary Indian cricketer Sachin Tendulkar has thrown his weight behind wrestler Vinesh Phogat, following her disqualification from the Girls’s 50kg occasion on the Paris Olympics 2024. Vinesh was disqualified on the morning of his gold medal bout for being 100 grams chubby, shattering the 29-year-old’s hopes of profitable an Olympic medal. After her disqualification, Vinesh has made an attraction to the Courtroom of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) to be awarded the silver medal. Whereas the attraction was accepted, the CAS stated that its one-member Advert-hoc panel will give a verdict on the identical earlier than the top of the Paris Olympics.
Taking to social media platform X, Tendulkar highlighted the loopholes within the guidelines, suggesting that the rule books must be revisited at occasions.
“Time for an Umpire’s Name! Each sport has guidelines and people guidelines have to be seen in context, possibly even revisited at occasions. Vinesh Phogat certified honest and sq. for the finals. Her disqualification by weight, was earlier than the finals, and therefore, for her to be robbed of a deserving silver medal defies logic and sporting sense,” Tendulkar stated in an announcement.
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— Sachin Tendulkar (@sachin_rt) August 9, 2024
Tendulkar added that since Vinesh beat her opponents honest and sq. on her method to the ultimate, it is unfair to take the credit score away from her, and hoped that the CAS will ship the decision in favour of the Indian athletes.
“It could have been comprehensible if an athlete had been to have been disqualified for moral breaches such because the utilization of efficiency enhancing medication. In that case, to not be awarded any medal and be positioned final can be justifiable. Nevertheless, Vinesh beat her opponents pretty to achieve the highest two. She undoubtedly deserves a silver medal. Whereas all of us anticipate a verdict from the Courtroom of Arbitration for Sport, allow us to hope and pray that Vinesh will get the popularity she deserves,” the assertion added.
Vinesh, who can be represented by famend senior counsels Harish Salve and Vidushpat Singhania, filed a plea earlier than the CAS advert hoc division at 2:00 PM on Wednesday.Â
The CAS has confirmed that there was no time to annul her disqualification from the Olympic Video games, as a result of paucity of time.
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