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 …