Vinesh Phogat has lastly damaged her silence on her heart-breaking disqualification from the ladies’s 50kg closing on the Paris Olympics 2024. The star wrestler had made historical past by changing into the primary Indian lady to enter a wrestling occasion closing on the Olympics. However on the morning of her occasion on August 7, Vinesh was discovered to be 100 gram and therefore was disqualified. She and the Indian Olympic Affiliation (IOA) approached the Court docket of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) for a joint silver medal however the enchantment was dismissed.
From August 7 until August 15, Vinesh by no means opened on what she went by way of after she was disqualified. On Friday, nevertheless, Vinesh lastly broke her lengthy silence with a three-page put up on X.
Vinesh opened up on why the Paris Olympics was an enormous event for her.
“Through the wrestlers protest I used to be combating laborious to guard the sanctity of girls in India, the sanctity and values of our lndian flag. However when one appears on the photos of me with the Indian flag from twenty eighth Might 2023, it haunts me. It was my want to have the Indian flag fly excessive this Olympics, to have an image of the Indian flag with me that actually represents it is worth and restores it is sanctity. I felt that by doing this it should accurately reprimand what the flag went by way of and what wrestling went by way of. l actually hoped to indicate that to my fellow lndians,” Vinesh wrote in a protracted put up.
She added that she and her didn’t give up to the circumstances.
“There may be a lot extra to say and a lot extra to inform however phrases won’t ever be sufficient and perhaps I’ll converse once more when the time feels proper. On the evening of sixth August and the morning of seventh August, all I wish to say is that we didn’t quit, our efforts didn’t cease, and we didn’t give up however the clock stopped and the time was not honest,” she wrote.
— Vinesh Phogat (@Phogat_Vinesh) August 16, 2024
“So was my destiny. To my staff, my fellow Indians and my household, it feels just like the objective that we had been working in the direction of and what we had deliberate to realize is unfinished, that one thing may all the time stay lacking, and that issues may by no means be the identical once more. Possibly below completely different circumstances, I might see myself taking part in until 2032, as a result of the struggle in me and wrestling in me will all the time be there. I can not predict what the longer term holds for me, and what awaits me on this journey subsequent, however I’m certain that I’ll proceed to struggle all the time for what I consider in and for the proper factor.”
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