Vinesh Phogat’s Appeal Against Paris Olympic 2024 Disqualification Rejected By Court Of Arbitration For Sport
Vinesh Phogat had appealed to CAS demanding she be given atleast a silver medal since the Indian wrestler entered the final within the weight limit.
Paris: Indian wrestler Vinesh Phogat’s enchantment in opposition to her disqualification from Olympic Games final has been rejected by the advert-hoc division of the Court docket of Arbitration for Activity (CAS), the Indian Olympic Affiliation acknowledged on Wednesday.
Vinesh remodeled into disqualified for being 100gm obese on the time of the weigh-in on the morning of the girls’s 50kg freestyle final final week. In a announcement, IOA President PT Usha expressed “shock and disappointment on the determination of the Sole Arbitrator on the CAS to ignore wrestler Vinesh Phogat’s application in opposition to the United World Wrestling (UWW) and the International Olympic Committee (IOC).”
“The operative point to the August 14 determination, which dismisses Vinesh’s application to be awarded a shared silver medal in girls’s 50 kg classification on the Paris Olympic Games has big implications for her in renowned and the carrying community at big,” the IOA recounted. The rejection of Vinesh’s enchantment means India’s tally from the Paris Olympics can be of six medals which contains one silver and 5 bronze.
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