IOA chief PT Usha gets blasted by Vinesh Phogat
Vinesh Phogat verbally attacked PT Usha, the head of the Indian Olympic Association, claiming that she politicized the situation by taking pictures of her on a hospital bed during the Olympics in Paris and did not provide much support.
In a terrible twist of events, Vinesh, one of India's top medal contenders, was disqualified from the gold medal match in women's 50kg wrestling after weighing in 100 grams overweight.
Vinesh, the nation's first female wrestler to compete in an Olympic final, was forced to come away empty-handed. It didn't matter how much you prodded and begged or went to extreme lengths like chopping off hair or staying up all night. The United World Wrestling reports that she was discovered to be overweight.
Vinesh claimed that the experience had left her devastated. "I'm not sure what kind of help I had there. I was visited at the hospital by PT Usha Madam. A single picture was taken. As you pointed out, a lot of politics takes place behind closed doors. In a similar vein, politics also took place in Paris.
That's the reason I felt devastated. If not, a number of individuals advise against quitting wrestling. For what purpose should I keep going? Politics is present everywhere, she continued.
