In a surprising turn of events, Indian wrestler Vinesh Phogat has been disqualified from her final bout at the Paris Olympics 2024 due to being 100 grams overweight, as confirmed by the Indian Olympic Association.<\/p>\n
Official Statement<\/strong><\/p>\n The Indian Olympic Association released the following statement: \u201cIt is with regret that the Indian contingent shares news of the disqualification of Vinesh Phogat from the Women\u2019s Wrestling 50kg class. Despite the best efforts by the team through the night, she weighed in a few grams over 50kg this morning. No further comments will be made by the contingent at this time. The Indian team requests you respect Vinesh\u2019s privacy. It would like to focus on the competitions on hand.\u201d<\/p>\n Background<\/strong><\/p>\n Vinesh Phogat had successfully made it to the final of the women\u2019s 50kg bout after a challenging journey. She defeated the Tokyo 2020 gold medalist 3-2 in her first bout, which paved the way for her advancement in the competition. Unfortunately, the weight issue has ended her gold medal hopes and left the 50kg category with only gold and bronze medals, with the silver medal position remaining vacant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In a surprising turn of events, Indian wrestler Vinesh Phogat has been disqualified from her final bout at the Paris\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":43057,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[636],"class_list":["post-22871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-olympics","tag-vinesh-phogat"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/250"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22871\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}