Vinesh Phogat’s Plea Towards Olympic Disqualification Accepted By CAS, Verdict Immediately

Wrestler Vinesh Phogat’s heartbreaking exit from the Paris Olympics 2024 made your entire India emotional. Vinesh, who had entered the ladies’s 50kg freestyle wrestling remaining, was disqualified from the occasion for being 100 grams obese. A day after her disqualification, Vinesh bid adieu to her worldwide wrestling profession, saying that she did not have the energy to proceed anymore. Amid this chaos, the Indian grappler additionally filed an enchantment within the Courtroom of Arbitration for Sport, difficult her disqualification from the medal occasion. 

A brand new improvement has now come to gentle that Vinesh’s enchantment has been accepted by the CAS and the courtroom’s listening to shall be happening right now. 

Two appeals had been filed by Vinesh – one for collaborating in Thursday’s wrestling remaining whereas the second was to get the joint-silver medal. Whereas her first enchantment was rejected, the CAS accepted her second request. 

The Indian authorities have appointed well-known lawyer Harish Salve to characterize Vinesh’s case in entrance of the CAS. As per the reviews, the listening to will happen on Friday at 1:30 PM (IST) and Salve shall be just about becoming a member of the case. 

Earlier on Thursday, American wrestler Sarah Ann Hildebrandt, who received the gold medal in girls’s 50kg freestyle wrestling, recalled the confusion that she skilled throughout the weigh-in, saying that she initially thought Vinesh had forfeited.

“I ready for chaos, however that was not on my bingo card of chaos. (Vinesh) wasn’t at weigh-ins, so I used to be in my head like, ‘Oh my gosh, this may be a risk.’ Then, we get the information that she did not make weight, and we had been beneath the impression that it was a forfeit. So, there was quite a lot of celebrating,” Hildebrandt was quoted as saying by PTI.

“It was very unusual, like ‘Oh my god, I simply received the Olympics.’ Then an hour later, they had been like, ‘You didn’t win the Olympics.’ I am like, ‘Oh, that is very bizarre.’ So there needed to be a reset. I took a nap, wakened, and it was like a fever dream,” she added.