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Despite being disqualified from the gold medal match just hours after she made Olympic history, Vinesh Phogat is still being hailed by many online for her bravery and resilience. The wrestler from Team India, who on Tuesday became the first woman from her country to make the Olympic finals, will not be participating in the women’s wrestling 50kg gold-medal match due to being "a few grams" over the weight class, according to the Indian Olympic Association. The Indian Olympic Association didn’t elaborate on the matter and requested privacy for Phogat. In a January 2023 letter, the group accused Singh of sexual harassment against several young female wrestlers. Indian wrestler Vinesh Phogat is detained by the police while attempting to march to India's new parliament in New Delhi on May 28, 2023.
Persons: Phogat, USA’s Sarah Hildebrandt, Yui Susaki, Ukraine’s Oksana Livach, Cuba’s Yusneylis Guzman Lopez, Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, Singh, Singh “, , Vinesh Phogat, Arun Thakur, ” Phogat, Brij Bhushan, India’s, Narendra Modi, Modi hasn’t Organizations: Team India, Indian Olympic Association, Wrestling Federation of India, Tokyo, Getty, , , Indian Express Locations: Wednesday’s, Japan, New Delhi, AFP, Phogat,
CNN —She only recently turned 25, but Yui Susaki is already a reigning Olympic gold medalist and four-time world champion, and is widely touted as the best pound-for-pound freestyle wrestler in the world. Yui Susaki celebrates with her coaches after winning gold in the Women's Freestyle 50kg final at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics. The Asahi Shimbun/Getty ImagesShe is also the first wrestler in history to achieve a “grand slam” in the sport – becoming world champion at U15s, U17s, U20s, U23s, senior and Olympic level. The Russian is the reigning Olympic champion in the men’s 74kg category. But the three-time world champion will not compete in Paris, focusing instead on his transition to mixed martial arts.
Persons: Yui Susaki, , ” Susaki, Shoko Yoshimura, Susaki, , , Zaurbek, I’ve, ” Sidakov, ” Yui Susaki, Sachiko Hotaka ‘, Mayu Mukaida, Risako Kawai, Yukako Kawai, Himari Semans Organizations: CNN, Paris, Games, , Tokyo Games, Asahi Shimbun, U15s, U17s, U20s, U23s, Olympic, Wrestling, Team Japan Locations: Tokyo, Paris, Chiba prefecture, Los Angeles, Brisbane, Dagestan, Russian, Niigata, Japan
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