Vinesh Phogat announces retirement after being disqualified for Paris Olympics 2024

Vinesh Phogat announces retirement after being disqualified from Olympics: Everything is not going well for Indians and Indian athlete Vinesh Phogat in the Paris Olympics 2024 to be held from August 7. Where Vinesh Phogat was going to play the gold medal match in the final on August 7. At the same time, the news of her disqualification came at 12 noon on the same day and she was declared ineligible for the final match due to her weight being a little more than 50 kg. After which the whole country along with Vinesh Phogat went into shock. Now Vinesh Phogat has announced her retirement from wrestling on August 8 at 5:17 am.

Vinesh Phogat announced her retirement with an emotional tweet
India’s star wrestler Vinesh Phogat has retired from wrestling after an unexpected development at the Paris Olympics. A few hours before the Olympic final, she was eliminated from the competition due to being 100 grams overweight during the weighing. Unable to bear this shock, Vinesh wrote an emotional post on social media and said goodbye to wrestling.

Vinesh Phogat wrote- “Maa, wrestling won over me, I lost. Forgive me. Your dream and my courage are all shattered. I don’t have any more strength left.” She further wrote- “Goodbye wrestling 2001-2024. I will always be indebted to you all. Sorry.”

Mom won the wrestling match against me, I lost. Forgive me, your dream, my courage is all broken, I don’t have any more strength now.

Goodbye wrestling 2001-2024 🙏

I will always be indebted to you all, sorry 🙏🙏

— Vinesh Phogat (@Phogat_Vinesh) August 7, 2024

Vinesh struggled a lot to lose weight
Vinesh Phogat struggled a lot to lose weight. She tried starving herself, stopping drinking water and sweating all night. She even cut her hair short but nothing worked.

Demanded from CAS to share the silver medal
Vinesh Phogat has appealed against this decision in the Court of Arbitration for Sports (CAS). She is demanding to share the silver medal. But, United World Wrestling (UWW) has made it clear that there will be no change in the existing weight rules for the time being.

“I have no problem with this (India’s appeal) but I know the outcome. I don’t see anything that can be done. These are the rules of the competition and I really don’t think it can be changed,” the UWW chief told Indian reporters.

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