Indian wrestler Vinesh Phogat disqualified for being overweight, was to contest for gold in finals

Indian Wrestler Vinesh Phogat disqualified from the Women’s Wrestling 50kg for being overweight. It is with regret that the Indian contingent shares news of the disqualification of Vinesh Phogat from the Women’s Wrestling 50kg class. Despite the best efforts by the team through the night, she weighed in a few grams over 50kg this morning. No further comments will be made by the contingent at this time. The Indian team requests you respect Vinesh’s privacy. It would like to focus on the competitions on hand: Indian Olympic Association.


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[roshankadam]

Men who are women fighting women and now this Paris Olympic is crazy

[TheAdityax-ffxc]

Why this problem was not told before...it is trap by western people to not let indians get gold medal..in Britain vs india hockey match also refre not behaved good with Indian players!!!

[amphibiouscamel]

Why didn't she compete in the 53kg category?

[atheethnaik]

Accept the fact that she was overweight, and remember it is olympics not a local tournament.

[heroic]

Trainer needs to check his weight constantly even we have people weights 15 gram more are disqualified and it's a matter of 100 grams

[v-rex]

I was eagerly waiting for 11:23 pm match today 😭

[ravicraoify]

Thats tough. Hope she recovers from this sooner and moves on.

[purplechemical]

How many extra grams did she weighed...
Cutting hairs might have helped it was very few grams.

[himayun]

If it was few grams she could have trim her hair what nonsense is this

[JunaidKhan-sghr]

As a Pakistani I felt sad for her.. it’s not one day it’s year of training and effort..love for her 🇵🇰🇵🇰

[Araab]

He who sows will reap, you will reap your deeds, happiness and sorrow are the results of your deeds, you will reap as you will.

[rahulsadh]

Sometime back I saw a video, where contestant cut her hair to fit in weight parameters. Not sure if this was a option here.

[SpoortiArahunashi]

Heart breaking news for every Indian 💔💔😑😑

[chaitanyavinay]

This is absolutely Rediculous, ,few grams

[Shalini]

Weight nahi, uska junoon, talent, dedication, hardwork uske medal k parti, vo dekhna chahiye

[Cityhunter]

There must be some default in weighing machine

[Suntzu]

Dude a meal probably weights a KG too
100g is nothing lmao

[Caro-deik]

She should have identified as being correct weight like those men in boxing identified as women. surely then they would accept.

[BharathR-le]

Modi is behind this what classless Modi he is

[A_NShiva]

Extremely bad news for her and sports but thats how life is. Hopefully all zihadi n zihadi gulmas who had made it like a war against government not sporting event will also learnt their lesson