India’s Again-Dated Home Wrestling Competitions Price Vinesh Phogat A Medal? Coach’s Daring Declare

Former Indian wrestler Kripa Shankar has opened up on grappler Vinesh Phogat’s disqualification from the Paris Olympics 2024. Vinesh, who was set to compete within the gold medal match on Wednesday, was disqualified for being a number of grams chubby on the morning of her 50kg bout. Vinesh had scripted historical past by changing into the primary Indian lady wrestler to achieve the gold medal bout within the occasion on Tuesday evening. Nonetheless, her hopes of profitable a gold medal on the Olympics had been shattered following the official verdict.

Vinesh was eligible to compete on Day 1 after she made the burden. Nonetheless, as per the brand new guidelines, a wrestler should meet the burden restrict on each the times.

It has been learnt that Vinesh was a kilogram chubby on Tuesday evening, and even managed to scale back 900 grams in a single day. She did not sleep all the evening and in addition did not eat something. Nonetheless, she could not do sufficient to do away with the remaining 100 grams of additional weight.

Talking solely with NDTV, Kripa Shankar, a former Commonwealth Video games bronze medallist, has steered that decreasing weight in a single day isn’t straightforward.

Shankar revealed that Vinesh doesn’t have a earlier expertise of giving her weight twice throughout an occasion. Nonetheless, he blamed the Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) for not implementing the follow of taking the weights twice throughout nationwide occasions.

“I do not assume Vinesh ever had the expertise of going for weigh-ins twice. Even within the nationwide tournaments there isn’t a such standards of taking the weights of the wrestlers twice. I had as soon as requested the Indian wrestling physique to not implement half-finished guidelines, however they suspended me for six years. I really feel that the wrestling physique needs to keep away from additional expenditure by organising a one-day match. By doing so, you aren’t giving the wrestlers the fitting ecosystem to wrestle. Giving weight is such an essential follow in wrestling. This is perhaps a small factor for a lot of, however this has value us huge time (with Vinesh’s disqualification),” Shankar, who can be a wrestling coach, advised NDTV.

If the wrestler is discovered chubby, they’ve 25 minutes to scale back it by doing biking, operating, sauna.