Olympic medal winner Sakshi Malik included among 100 influential people, wrestler expressed happiness like this

Sakshi Malik created a sensation in the sports world by taking retirement from wrestling in December 2023. Now Times Magazine has named him among the 100 most influential people in the world in 2024. Sakshi is the first female wrestler to win a medal in wrestling in the history of the Olympics. He brought glory to India across the world by winning the bronze medal in the 2016 Rio Olympics. For the last several months, Sakshi was in the news for accusing former Indian Wrestling Federation President Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh.

Expressing happiness over being included in the list released by Times Magazine, Sakshi Malik wrote on social media platform Many other sportspersons associated with the sports world have also been included in this list, but Sakshi Malik is the only Indian player who has been included in this list for 2024. Talking about Indians, Bollywood actress Alia Bhatt has also been included among the 100 most influential people of 2024.

Why is Sakshi Malik in the news?

Along with Sakshi Malik, Tokyo Olympics bronze medalist Bajrang Punia and two-time World Wrestling Championship bronze medalist Vinesh Phogat also sat on a dharna at Jantar Mantar in the sexual harassment case against former Indian Wrestling Federation president Brij Bhushan Singh. Were. Despite being accused many times, Brij Bhushan has been rejecting all such allegations. Due to these allegations, Brij Bhushan had resigned from his post in the federation. In his place, Sanjay Singh, a colleague of Brij Bhushan, took over this post.

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