Vinesh Phogat Paris Olympics 2024 Disqualification: India Sports Fraternity Backs Wrestler After CAS Dismisses Appeal

India sportspersons, including Tokyo Olympics 2021 medallist Bajrang Punia, have come out in support of Vinesh Phogat after CAS dismissed her appeal to be awarded a silver medal at Paris Olympics 2024.

Aug 15, 2024 - 14:30
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Vinesh Phogat Paris Olympics 2024 Disqualification: India Sports Fraternity Backs Wrestler After CAS Dismisses Appeal

The Indian wearing fraternity reacted with disappointment at the Court of Arbitration for Recreation’s (CAS) verdict rejecting wrestler Vinesh Phogat’s appeal in opposition to her Olympic disqualification but acknowledged she's going to continue to be a champion for them. The advert-hoc division of the CAS on Wednesday rejected Vinesh’s appeal in opposition to a gut-wrenching disqualification from the Paris Olympics 2024 50kg final for being 100gm obese, which dashed any hopes of securing a belated silver medal.

“It’s disappointing but we're going to’t do whatsoever about that,” hockey legend PR Sreejesh, who retired after inspiring the Indian crew to a 2d consecutive Olympic bronze medal inside of the Paris Video games, informed PTI recordsdata industrial enterprise industrial enterprise.

Tokyo Olympics 2021 bronze medallist Bajrang Punia acknowledged a medal has been snatched away from Vinesh. “I've confidence your medal was once snatched away in the course of this darkness. It's possible you may be shining like a diamond inside of the performed world in at the second,” Punia, who led a protracted take a seat-in protest alongside with Vinesh and Sakshi Malik accusing former WFI chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh of sexually harassing ladies grapplers, posted on ‘X’.

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