‘Obese’ Vinesh Phogat prone to be disqualified, could miss medal at Paris Olympics: Report | Paris Olympics 2024 Information – Occasions of India

India’s Vinesh Phogat, who on Tuesday entered the ultimate of the ladies’s 50kg freestyle wrestling occasion on the Paris Olympics, was discovered obese on the second day of the competitors and has been disqualified from the Paris Olympics. Consequently, she will not contest within the closing as we speak and can miss a historic podium end.
The assertion by the Indian Olympic Associationi says: “It’s with remorse that the Indian contingent shares information of the disqualification of Vinesh Phogat from the Girls’s Wrestling 50kg class.Regardless of the perfect efforts by the crew by the night time, she weighed in just a few grams over 50kg this morning. No additional feedback will probably be made by the contingent presently. The Indian crew requests you respect Vinesh’s privateness. It wish to deal with the competitions available.”

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Vinesh was scheduled to face USA’s Sarah Hildebrandt for the gold medal.
“She was discovered obese by 100gm this morning (Wednesday). The principles don’t permit this and he or she has been disqualified,” stated an Indian coach.
In keeping with the principles of the Paris Olympics wrestling competitors, there’ll now be no silver medal winner within the ladies’s 50kg occasion, which can now have solely a gold medal winner and two bronze medallists.

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As per a report in The Indian Specific, Vinesh met the load standards for her bouts on Tuesday however the guidelines state that athletes ought to weigh inside their weight class on each days of the occasion.
The report additionally says that Vinesh was 2kg obese on Tuesday night time and labored out virtually your complete night time in hope of assembly the load standards on the day of her closing. However that did not materialise and requests by the Indian delegation to permit Vinesh a while to lose that additional 100 gm weren’t entertained.