Vinesh Phogat Made India Lose A Gold Medal In The Paris Olympics.
Yogeshwar Dutt, the bronze medalist from London Olympics 2012 stated that it was wrong to celebrate the return of Vinesh Phogat after the Paris Olympics 2024. The sudden disqualification of Vinesh Phogat from the gold medal match was shocking news for Every Indian participant in the Paris Olympics 2024. The disqualification of the wrestler was done as she was found 100 grams overweight before the weighing round for the final match for the gold medal. With this incident, she received a lot of sympathy from all over the country and from the wrestling greats. After her disqualification from the gold medal match she raised her voice for the joint silver medal which was denied later, she announced her retirement, and after appealing in Court of Arbitration for Sports (CAS) denied the appeal, she returned to India where she received a hero’s welcome. In this scenario Yogeshwar Dutt, the bronze medalist of the London Olympics 2012 said that she should have apologized to the entire country for the loss of the gold medal” he said if one gets disqualified at the Olympics, the first move should be accepting their mistake and asking for forgiveness from the entire nation for the medal lost” he said this while talking to Panchayat AajTak Haryana 2024. Vinesh was seen at a protest against the Wrestling Federation of India Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh last year, who has been accused of sexual harassment by 7 female wrestlers mentioned in the FIR. After her return from the Paris Olympics, she and Bajrang Punia, two of the important faces in the protest, have joined the congress party and Vinesh will be fighting the Haryana assembly election from Julana. Yogeshwar Dutt who himself is a BJP member mentioned for this whole scenario PM Modi was getting the blame, but all should know that the rules of the Olympics are the same for all, even after the disqualification everyone was trying to make a scenario that something was wrong had happened to Vinesh, if I was there in place of Vinesh I would have accepted my Mistake for not being able to maintain my weight as per the guidelines and apologize to the country for the medal lost.