Vinesh phogat has Appealed for a joint silver medal to be awarded to her in women 50kg free style wrestling category. Paris Olympics 2024.
Entire India awaits the court of arbitration CAS verdict on wrestler Vinesh Phogat joint silver medal plea. Vinesh , who was disqualified before her final in the women’s freestyle 50k wrestling bout, was weighing 100grams over the 50kg limit.as the argument continue in front of the CAS Vinesh as reportedly sighted the tight schedule between her bout as well as the distances between athelete Village and the competitions arena as the reason behind her failure to make the weight cut.
According to a reason in the news counsel for phogat highlighted the distance between champ the Mars arena, the venue for the wrestling competition and athletes village as a contributing factor to her failure in making the cut at the schedule weigh in the Indian wrestlers council also side that the tight schedule between bouts didn’t allow her enough time to reduce her weight, which had touched the 52.7 KG Marg after the first day of her competition.
The counsel further argued that Venus didn’t get any competitive advantage with the extra 100 g she had on the second morning give her no competitive advantage.
The excess of 100 g extremely negligible (representing around 0.1 to 0.2 percent of the athletes weight) and can easily caused by the bloating of a human body during summer weather ,as the heat makes the human body retain more water, scientifically for survival purpose. It can also be due to muscle mass increase as the athlete completed three times on the same day. it can also be caused by the food consumption of the athlete after the competition to sustain her health and integrity for the demanding competitions,” phogat’s counsel asserted as per the paper.
‘ there would be a manifest disproportion between the level of access ( which excludes in a attempt fraud for manipulation of the athlete ) and irreversible consequences that would result from here non participation in the finals in addition to the deprivation of a silver medal that was acquired by hard work ,’ the report stated.
Vinesh counsel also called for the needed to keep the athlete heath over the consideration.
Vinesh phogat’s disqualification appeal. :
Vinesh phogat’s appeal for a shared silver medal after she was disqualify form an Olympic final for missing weight could come as late as Tuesday, the court of arbitration for sport said on Saturday