“100 Grams Chubby Is Nothing”: Vijender Singh Fumes After Vinesh Phogat’s Paris Olympics Disqualification

It was speculated to be Vinesh Phogat’s day on the Paris Olympics 2024. After qualifying for remaining of the ladies’s 50kg wrestling at Paris Olympics 2024, Vinesh Phogat was primed for the gold medal as she was in prime kind. However what occurred on Wednesday broke a billion hearts. The star wrestler was discovered obese forward of her ladies’s 50kg remaining, leaving her medal-less inside hours of coming near an unparalleled gold.

Vinesh had scripted historical past by turning into the primary Indian girl wrestler to achieve the gold medal bout within the occasion on Tuesday night time.

“It’s with remorse that the Indian contingent shares information of the disqualification of Vinesh Phogat from the Ladies’s Wrestling 50kg class. Regardless of the very best efforts by the staff via the night time, she weighed in a number of grams over 50kg this morning. No additional feedback might be made by the contingent presently. The Indian staff requests you respect Vinesh’s privateness. It wish to concentrate on the competitions available,” Workforce India wrote in a put up on X.

Sources advised NDTV Vinesh Phogat’s weight went up by 1kg on Tuesday night time. She misplaced 900 grams by Wednesday morning however couldn’t scale back the final 100 grams weight.

Olympic medallist boxer Vijender Singh stated that the obese subject is nothing. 

“In case an athlete is over-weight – steam bathtub, sauna , operating – all are performed to scale back few grams. This can be a very arduous resolution, we should always battle the choice,” Vijender Singh stated. 

“Attraction is feasible. The Indian Olympic Affiliation ought to take it up. It’s unprecedented for a participant to be disqualified like this within the remaining. 100 grams is nothing. Boxers are given greater than an hour to scale back weight”