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Vinesh Phogat on Olympic heartbreak: ‘I wasn’t even fully conscious during P T Usha photo-op… taken just to tell media I was okay’ | Sport-others News

Right in the middle of an intense election campaign, a month after her heart-breaking Paris Olympics medal miss, the nation’s top wrestler and now Congress candidate from Julana assembly constituency in Haryana, Vinesh Phogat, says she is merely following her destiny. “Politics was a big decision. This is God’s will… I am following my destiny,” she tells The Indian Express, taking a break during her busy village-hopping schedule. Phogat concedes that the love showered on her at the crowded rallies overwhelms her but says she can’t forget the days following her disqualification from the 50-kg final for being 100 grams overweight, when everyone from politicians, federation officials and even some fellow sportspersons didn’t stand by her. She calls Indian Olympics Association chief P T Usha’s visit to the Games Village hospital in Paris, where she was recovering after her extreme weight cut, a “photo opportunity”. “I was told that PT Usha was coming … I wasn’t even fully conscious. I was dizzy after becoming unconscious. I was made to sit up. It was to post …

Vinesh Phogat: Congress politician slams IOA chief PT Usha for hospital bed picture, says legend ‘gave no support’ | Sport-others News

Indian wrestler-turned-politician Vinesh Phogat: During the 2024 Paris Olympics Vinesh Phogat was guaranteed to win a medal for the country before she was disqualified from the competition being 100 grams overweight in the 51 Kg category for the final. The 29-year-old in the local news channel slammed IOA chief PT Usha claiming she did not support her at the time. “I don’t know what support I got there,” Vinesh said in a local news channel. “PT Usha Madam visited me at the hospital. One photo was clicked…As you said, in politics a lot happens behind closed doors. Similarly, politics happened there (in Paris) as well. That’s why I was heartbroken. Otherwise, many people are saying ‘Don’t leave wrestling’. For what should I continue? There is politics everywhere.” “You are on a hospital bed, where you don’t know what’s happening in life outside, you are going through one of the worst phases of your life. At that place, to show everyone you are standing with me, aap bina bataye photo kheench rahe ho, fir social media …