‘Time Was Not Fair…’: Vinesh Breaks Silence On Paris Olympics 2024 Disqualification

New Delhi: Vinesh Phogat has finally addressed her disqualification from the adult females’s 50kg final at the Paris Olympics 2024. The superstar wrestler, who had made historical previous simply because the first Indian lady to reach a wrestling tournament final at the Olympics, change into disqualified on the morning of her tournament on August 7 on account of being a hundred grams over the burden hinder. Even if or not her and the Indian Olympic Association’s (IOA) efforts to steady a joint silver medal thru an attraction to the Court of Arbitration for Video game (CAS), the attraction change into disregarded.

From August 7 to August 15, Vinesh Phogat remained silent about her tournament following her disqualification. Even if or not, on Friday, she finally broke her silence with a close three-page put up on X.

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— Vinesh Phogat (@Phogat_Vinesh) August sixteen, 2024

Vinesh opened up on why the Paris Olympics change into a substantial get together for her.

“For the length of the wrestlers protest I change into combating tricky to guard the sanctity of adult females in India, the sanctity and values of our lndian flag. Even if or not when one looks to be at the photography of me with the Indian flag from 28th May 2023, it haunts me. It change into my prefer to have the Indian flag fly excessive this Olympics, to have a image of the Indian flag with me that genuinely represents it’s value and restores it’s sanctity. I felt that with the support of doing this or not it should be going to successfully reprimand what the flag went thru and what wrestling went thru. l definitely hoped to divulge that to my fellow lndians,” Vinesh wrote in a long put up.

She delivered that she and her did now now not give up to the cases.

“There is a lot elevated to declare and a lot elevated to inform but phrases will never be sufficient and per hazard I should be in a position to speak about over once more when the time feels sensible. On the nighttime time of 6th August and the morning of Seventh August, all I prefer to declare is that we did now now not give up, our efforts did now now not give up, and we did now now not give up however the clock stopped and the time change into now now not sincere,” she wrote.

“So change into my fate. To my crew, my fellow Indians and my loved ones unit, it feels clone of the aim that we have been working towards and what we had bear in mind to reach is unfinished, that one thing may always proceed to be missing, and that issues may never be the identical over once more. Perchance beneath sensible cases, I may prefer to peer myself taking part in till 2032, it should be because the attempt against in me and wrestling in me will always be there. I should be in a position to’t predict what the future holds for me, and what awaits me on this ride subsequent, but I am constructive that I should be in a position to proceed to attempt against always for what I agree with in and for the sensible thing.”