India has suffered a major setback in the Paris Olympics 2024 in which female wrestler athlete Vinesh Phogat, who had made it to the gold medal match of the 50 kg freestyle wrestling event, has been disqualified from the final match due to being overweight. Vinesh was to play her gold medal match against the USA wrestler at 12:45 tonight, but now she is out of this entire match in which she will not even get a silver medal.

Statement issued by the Indian Olympic Association

After Vinesh Phogat's exit, a statement has been issued by the Indian Olympic Association in which he said that it is very disappointing news that Indian female wrestler Vinesh Phogat, who was to play the gold medal match in the 50 kg freestyle category, has been disqualified before this match due to being overweight. Efforts were made by the team to reduce her weight overnight, but this morning her weight was a little more than 50 kg. There will be no comment from the Indian team right now. We all request you to respect Vinesh's privacy so that she can focus on the upcoming events.

Vinesh was about 100 grams overweight
Vinesh, who was disqualified from the gold medal match and will now neither be able to win a gold medal nor a silver medal, was found to be about 100 grams overweight in the 50 kg category. Now only 2 wrestlers will be given medals in this category, one of whom will be the USA wrestler who won the gold medal and the other will be the bronze medal winner. At the same time, Vinesh will not get any medal. This is not the first time that Vinesh has faced the problem of overweight in qualifying in the 50 kg category because earlier she used to participate in the 53 kg category. Earlier, she had to face similar problems in the Olympic qualifiers as well where she was able to make it by a very narrow margin.