Champion wrestler Vinesh Phogat arrived on the Indira Gandhi Worldwide Airport right here on Saturday following the heartbreak in Paris Olympics the place she was disqualified for being chubby after reaching the 50kg remaining. There was a thick safety cowl as Phogat, who was discovered 100 grams chubby on the day of her bout earlier this month, landed within the nationwide capital. Phogat needed to keep again in Paris after she had appealed to the Courtroom of Arbitration for Sport for a joint silver which was ultimately dismissed on Wednesday.
Upon her arrival in New Delhi, Vinesh acquired a grand welcome from the followers, who had gathered on the airport hours earlier than her arrivals. Vinesh’s members of the family and family had been additionally current outdoors the airport to welcome her.
#WATCH | Indian wrestler Vinesh Phogat receives a heat welcome at Delhi’s IGI Airport
She arrived right here from Paris after collaborating within the #Olympics2024Paris. pic.twitter.com/VlTk0g68Lt
— ANI (@ANI) August 17, 2024
London Olympics bronze medal-winning shooter Gagan Narang, who was the chief de mission of the Indian contingent in Paris, known as her a champion, posting a photograph with Phogat on the Paris airport. Each of them had been on the identical flight to Delhi.
“She got here as a champion on day 1 into the video games village and she’s going to at all times stay our champion. Generally one does not want an Olympic medal to encourage a billion goals.. @vineshphogat you’ve impressed generations. Salute to your grit,” Narang posted on X.
She got here as a champion on day 1 into the video games village and she’s going to at all times stay our champion .
Generally one does not want an Olympic medal to encourage a billion goals.. @vineshphogat you’ve impressed generations. .
Salute to your grit pic.twitter.com/8m6zQVSS2L
— Gagan Narang (@gaGunNarang) August 17, 2024
“Vinesh is returning to the nation. Folks have come right here on the (Delhi) airport to welcome her. Persons are additionally ready to welcome her at our village. Persons are thrilling to fulfill Vinesh and encourage her,” her brother Harvinder Phogat mentioned.
She may even be given a grand welcome at her native village in Balali in Haryana.
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