Now my body is not broken, but I’m truly broken: Wrestler Vinesh Phogat

On August 10, the Wrestling Federation of India “temporarily suspended” star grappler Vinesh Phogat for indiscipline during her Tokyo Olympics campaign that ended in a quarter-final defeat.

The WFI officials alleged that Vinesh, who had travelled to Tokyo from Hungary where she had trained with coach Woller Akos, had refused to stay at the Games Village and train with the other Indian team members.

She also did not wear the name of the official sponsors of the Indian contingent, Shiv Naresh, and chose to wear a Nike singlet during her bouts.

Phogat was given time till August 16 to reply to the notice that mentioned indiscipline on three counts and now, she has come clean in a column that has been published in the Indian Express.

Phogat starts off by talking about how she is feeling at the moment. The WFI has pushed her into a corner and almost everyone seems to be taking potshots at her.

“… everyone outside is treating me like I am a dead thing. They write anything, they do…. I knew that in India, you fall as fast as you rise. One medal (lost) and everything is finished,” she wrote in the column.

The words show just how vulnerable she is at the moment but the WFI officials,…

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