{"id":607,"date":"2023-12-22T18:47:11","date_gmt":"2023-12-22T13:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=385565"},"modified":"2023-12-22T18:47:11","modified_gmt":"2023-12-22T13:17:11","slug":"sakshi-malik-contemplates-retirement-as-sanjay-singh-clinches-wrestling-federation-of-india-presidency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/other-sports\/sakshi-malik-contemplates-retirement-as-sanjay-singh-clinches-wrestling-federation-of-india-presidency\/","title":{"rendered":"Sakshi Malik contemplates retirement as Sanjay Singh clinches Wrestling Federation of India Presidency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rio Olympics bronze medallist Sakshi Malik, in a heartfelt address to the media, expressed her disappointment over the election of Sanjay Singh as the Wrestling Federation of India president.<\/p>\n<p>Sanjay Singh, a close ally of former chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, secured victory by defeating Commonwealth Games gold medallist Anita Sheoran with a commanding 40 votes to 7 in the highly anticipated WFI elections held in New Delhi on December 21.<\/p>\n<p>Malik, who led protests against Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, revealed that the promises made by the Sports Ministry to prevent the influence of Singh\u2019s family and associates were not fulfilled.<\/p>\n<p>Emphasizing that Sanjay Singh, previously the vice-president of the Uttar Pradesh Wrestling Federation, was a key figure in Singh\u2019s camp, Malik hinted at the possibility of stepping away from wrestling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rio Olympics bronze medallist Sakshi Malik, in a heartfelt address to the media, expressed her disappointment over the election of\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":23746,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[1880],"class_list":["post-607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-other-sports","tag-sakshi-malik"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607","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=607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}