Paris Olympics 2024: ‘We Must Protest Strongly’, Says Sunil Gavaskar On Vinesh Phogat’s Disqualification
Former cricketer Sunil Gavaskar called Vinesh Phogat's disqualification from the women's 50kg gold medal bout at the Paris Olympics "unfortunate" and expressed concern about its potential impact on the Indian contingent, while also lamenting young shuttler Lakshya Sen's early exit despite promising starts.
New Delhi: Former India cricketer Sunil Gavaskar mirrored on wrestler Vinesh Phogat’s disqualification from the adult females’s 50kg gold medal bout inside the continuing Paris Olympics 2024, calling the total incident ‘unlucky’.
“It’s unlucky and unfair. I do hope that the authorities will take discover of it, take a powerful response to this since it be now not just the preliminary spherical. We’re speaking in regards to the gold medal spherical and for that reason, this is able to not and should now not be taken mendacity down just by all persons in India — without reference to whether it’s the Indian Olympic Affiliation or the authorities of India,” Gavaskar talked about on the sidelines of the launch of TVS Apache Spartan Race India.
Vinesh, who created recordsdata just by defeating Yui Susaki who was unbeaten in her last Eighty two bouts. Gavaskar extra, “We definitely must be protesting very, very strongly about this total trouble…”
The out of date India captain also acknowledged that this trouble would per threat negatively have an final result on the Indian contingent’s fundamental performance for the remainder of the Video games. “Or not it is able to be going to right be disheartening for the total contingent. Here is the condition the routines humans have a tendency to elevate themselves up. Here is the job to elevate your self over and above this and get right into a prevailing quandary. That’s what sport is all about, sport is now not elementary – be it cricket or soccer or other disciplines, it’s about overcoming the obstacles that come your way,” Gavaskar talked about, adding: “That’s the condition our athletes should stand up and win medals…”
Regardless of some sturdy performances in distinctive disciplines, India has secured handiest three bronze medals for this cause a good way. As a badminton fan, Gavaskar was relatively disenchanted to peer youthful shuttler Lakshya Sen exit after a promising commence in the 2 the semifinal in opposition t Denmark’s Viktor Axelsen and the bronze medal go smartly with in opposition t Malaysia’s Lee Zii Jia.
“I was somewhat disenchanted because on the 2 days, Lakshya had taken the lead then once another time may favor to now not preserve it. We must always take a seem into without reference to whether it’s extra of a psychological trouble, even Prakash (Padukone) talked about he did now not comprehend why Lakshya lost,” Gavaskar talked about.
“On match, it occurs to all of us in our day-to-day life the condition you lose the tutor of advice. Even at the identical time as playing, you should per threat lose that model of advice and in a straight sport like badminton, once you lose for a fraction of section, the opponent fights lower to come back,” talked about Gavaskar, hoping that the child learns from his experiences and emerges as a considerable gold medal contender at the Los Angeles Olympics in 2028.
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