Vinesh Phogat Leaves Games Village In Paris As Indian Wrestler Awaits Verdict On Appeal Against Olympics Disqualification

Vinesh Phogat was disqualified just before her women’s 50kg final bout at Paris Olympics 2024 after being found overweight by just 100gms.

Aug 12, 2024 - 22:30
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Vinesh Phogat Leaves Games Village In Paris As Indian Wrestler Awaits Verdict On Appeal Against Olympics Disqualification

Paris: Wrestler Vinesh Phogat will land in India on Tuesday at round 10:30 AM on the Indira Gandhi World Airport, after pictures of her leaving the Games Village in Paris on Monday emerged. Inside of the photography which have been shared by equipment agency IANS, Vinesh became into seen with his two trolley bags as he exited the lodging given to the athletes on the Paris Olympics, which concluded on Sunday.

Vinesh, who stormed into the premier of the adult ladies folks’s 50kg freestyle tournament with three convincing wins, which comprise against wrestling royalty Yui Susaki of Japan most good Tuesday, became into debarred from the gold medal bout against eventual winner Sarah Hildebrandt of the United States as she became into found 100gm above the prescribed hinder inside of the total morning weigh-in.

Shocked by the dramatic turn of events, the crestfallen grappler most good Wednesday appealed against the resolution on the CAS and demanded that she obtain a joint silver with Cuban wrestler Yusneylis Guzman Lopez, who had lost to Vinesh but became into later promoted to the premier following the Indian’s disqualification.

A day after her heartbreaking disqualification, Vinesh launched her retirement from the sport, saying she doesn’t have the electricity to continue. The Indian wrestler is seeking forward to the verdict which will be out on August Thirteen, as identified by the Court docket of Arbitration in a announcement on Saturday.

Months beforehand she boarded the aircraft to Paris, Vinesh became into spearheading a protest alongside with fellow wrestlers Bajrang Punia and Sakshi Malik against former Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) president Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, who became into accused of sexual harassment and intimidation by the modern trio and few other grapplers.

Who Are Representing Vinesh Phogat At CAS?

Vinesh’s offender crew has French lawyers Joelle Monlouis, Estelle Ivanova, Habbine Estelle Kim and Charles Amson who helped her and the Indian Olympic Organization (IOA) all by way of the submitting of the utility. They have been furnished to her by the Paris Bar and are handling the case pro bono.

In an analogous manner, senior counsels Harish Salve and Vidushpat Singhania have additionally been roped in to manual her inside of the case. If CAS legislations in Vinesh’s favour, she will additionally be awarded a joint-silver inside of the adult ladies folks’s 50kg freestyle classification.

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