How does this story keep getting sadder with every post
Holy shit, didn’t expect this outcome. I hope she is fine mentally. This really must have destroyed her.
Wow, just wow. I couldn’t imagine what she’s feeling right now. First she gets eliminated from metal contention now this. The emotions she’s feeling right now would destroy the best of us.
I really hope she has a good support system 🙁
I feel so terrible for her. I was really rooting for her to win gold, I can’t imagine what she’s going through. To be so close and to get disqualified… just an awful outcome
So fucking sad. Wrestling demands so much. One of the hardest sports in the world. I hope when things calm down a bit she takes some solace in her historic upset over Susaki
I really fear for her mental and physical wellbeing. She went through so much sexual harassment and legal trials to get here and then weighed 100 g over the weight and got dq. 💔
She should try MMA. Her sister Ritu had a decent run
Sports are challenging
Outside of the sport, the Olympics and the fact that you’re representing a country and all of that… The mere idea of having your biggest fuck-up at work broadcast to the entire world and becoming an international headline is so damn horrifying I’m not sure I can even comprehend it.
I don’t know what anyone does in this situation, but I hope things get better for her.
From her story and life I am convinced how unfair and cruel life can be, and that’s just the bitter truth.. there is nothing to bring comfort in this story. Happy endings really belong only in movies
She was one of the best wrestlers we had. Born and raised in a family full of wrestlers from humble background. (Watch the movie Dangal to know more about that family). Had to fight with the system and its politics despite being an elite wrestler. Had to go through the mental torture and protest alongside other wrestlers on roads due to sexual harrasment by a ruling party politician; ultimately to only get ignored by the ruling party and the prime minister during these tough times despite having had represented the country on the global stage multiple times. Finally she had a chance to fight for it all in the Olympics but couldn’t qualify for her usual weight category due to injury and another wrestler was qualified in that weight category. Even then she decided to not give up and train harder to enter Olympics with a different weight category, and she did it. She then defeats the invincible Yui Susaki and reaches final. She must have badly wanted the gold so much, coz stuff like that is a big slap on the government and the ministry who paid zero attention a year ago during the protest. But alas, it all wasn’t meant to be due to that excess of 100 grams
This poor woman. I’m so saddened by it all, and I hope there are people around her who will mind her and support her right now.
Come to the US and teach wrestling. We value great athletes here. What the fuck is wrong with India, it’s embarrassing to anyone who cares about sport.
How can you recover from something like this? I don’t her but I wish her the best to regain the inner peace as we all may, someday, come across something like this that makes us feel we have lost everything
Depression incoming
Should try wwe.. got a great story
Poor woman.
This is very worrying, I hope she’s surrounded by loving people
It seems everyone knows about the sexual harassment protests and her massive fight with the federation by now. What some of you might not know is that in her first Olympics at Rio, she went in as a medal contender in 48kg, won her Ro16 emphatically before tearing her ACL midway through her quarterfinal bout and leaving her carried off on a stretcher. This really is one of the most tragic stories in Indian sport with just no happy ending in sight. I really really hope and pray she can get through one more heartbreak and finds some peace
Ik someone else qualified at her normal weight so she had to go down but cutting weight is a dangerous game. Combat sports really needs to figure out a way to eliminate extreme weight cutting.
Very sad. Why do I feel there is more to this than meets the eye. Something just seems off.
Hope she is doing well mentally. This can’t have been good for her
I don´t want to be dramatic, but she should be on suicide watch from what I´ve seen and read from her in the last 24 hours.
This olympics has been too heartbreaking, I’m done watching the Paris edition. Hoping things are better in LA
Heartbreaking
This doesn’t sound like a retirement note; it sounds like a suicide note! I really hope she gets the emotional and mental support that She will need during this difficult time, and that someone adresses her mental health condition while she’s going through this anguish. ❤️
Holy fuck.
That reads like a suicide note.😕
The needs all the support she deserves, I was rooting so much for her, IOC disapointing as always, I hope she takes some time, rests a bit, and joins mma
She’s had the worst time ever. Before this, she was manhandled by police for protesting sexual harassment of wrestlers at the hands of the head of India’s wrestling association. To get to the finals despite being distracted by all this is tremendous. To be rejected an extension to lose just 100g – after having dehydrated, starved, vomited, bled herself to reach the weight category and being hospitalised for it…when plenty of wrestlers in the past have been given that extension in the olympics – after being told by her sexual harassing association to go into the 50kg category or not go to the olympics at all….after 2016 in which she was injured so could not compete…
I get what she means when she says “wrestling has won”. Her wrestling association, her medical staff, the olympic wrestling body, they’ve all let her down. I just hope she has the support system and mental strength to shrug it all off and continue with life. Honestly, I hope she changes her mind, returns in 2028, wins gold and pulls the middle finger to all of them. But if she decides for real that she’s had enough, I understand. As an Indian supporter, fuck this Olympics honestly
This is so heartbreaking. She worked really hard for her entire life to this? I cannot believe this is real. We all as audiance are sad and imagine the pain she might be in. I am so sorry Vinesh. We all are with you.
This is what India’s government has done to its sport heroes: it destroys them.
this is horrible 😔
I hope she is surrounded by people who care for her and is safe because this is scary.
I still don’t understand why this is so tragic? Yes it is disappointing for her but cutting weight is such a normal part of the sport, there’s no way she should have had an issue as a professional, especially when her opponents didn’t have that issue. Yes it’s strict but rules are rules.
I’m not trying to be insensitive here either, perhaps I am ignorant to part of this story because I only know that she missed her weight.
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How does this story keep getting sadder with every post
Holy shit, didn’t expect this outcome. I hope she is fine mentally. This really must have destroyed her.
Wow, just wow. I couldn’t imagine what she’s feeling right now. First she gets eliminated from metal contention now this. The emotions she’s feeling right now would destroy the best of us.
I really hope she has a good support system 🙁
I feel so terrible for her. I was really rooting for her to win gold, I can’t imagine what she’s going through. To be so close and to get disqualified… just an awful outcome
So fucking sad. Wrestling demands so much. One of the hardest sports in the world. I hope when things calm down a bit she takes some solace in her historic upset over Susaki
I really fear for her mental and physical wellbeing. She went through so much sexual harassment and legal trials to get here and then weighed 100 g over the weight and got dq. 💔
She should try MMA. Her sister Ritu had a decent run
Sports are challenging
Outside of the sport, the Olympics and the fact that you’re representing a country and all of that… The mere idea of having your biggest fuck-up at work broadcast to the entire world and becoming an international headline is so damn horrifying I’m not sure I can even comprehend it.
I don’t know what anyone does in this situation, but I hope things get better for her.
From her story and life I am convinced how unfair and cruel life can be, and that’s just the bitter truth.. there is nothing to bring comfort in this story. Happy endings really belong only in movies
She was one of the best wrestlers we had. Born and raised in a family full of wrestlers from humble background. (Watch the movie Dangal to know more about that family). Had to fight with the system and its politics despite being an elite wrestler. Had to go through the mental torture and protest alongside other wrestlers on roads due to sexual harrasment by a ruling party politician; ultimately to only get ignored by the ruling party and the prime minister during these tough times despite having had represented the country on the global stage multiple times. Finally she had a chance to fight for it all in the Olympics but couldn’t qualify for her usual weight category due to injury and another wrestler was qualified in that weight category. Even then she decided to not give up and train harder to enter Olympics with a different weight category, and she did it. She then defeats the invincible Yui Susaki and reaches final. She must have badly wanted the gold so much, coz stuff like that is a big slap on the government and the ministry who paid zero attention a year ago during the protest. But alas, it all wasn’t meant to be due to that excess of 100 grams
This poor woman. I’m so saddened by it all, and I hope there are people around her who will mind her and support her right now.
Come to the US and teach wrestling. We value great athletes here. What the fuck is wrong with India, it’s embarrassing to anyone who cares about sport.
How can you recover from something like this? I don’t her but I wish her the best to regain the inner peace as we all may, someday, come across something like this that makes us feel we have lost everything
Depression incoming
Should try wwe.. got a great story
Poor woman.
This is very worrying, I hope she’s surrounded by loving people
It seems everyone knows about the sexual harassment protests and her massive fight with the federation by now. What some of you might not know is that in her first Olympics at Rio, she went in as a medal contender in 48kg, won her Ro16 emphatically before tearing her ACL midway through her quarterfinal bout and leaving her carried off on a stretcher. This really is one of the most tragic stories in Indian sport with just no happy ending in sight. I really really hope and pray she can get through one more heartbreak and finds some peace
Ik someone else qualified at her normal weight so she had to go down but cutting weight is a dangerous game. Combat sports really needs to figure out a way to eliminate extreme weight cutting.
Very sad. Why do I feel there is more to this than meets the eye. Something just seems off.
Hope she is doing well mentally. This can’t have been good for her
I don´t want to be dramatic, but she should be on suicide watch from what I´ve seen and read from her in the last 24 hours.
This olympics has been too heartbreaking, I’m done watching the Paris edition. Hoping things are better in LA
Heartbreaking
This doesn’t sound like a retirement note; it sounds like a suicide note! I really hope she gets the emotional and mental support that She will need during this difficult time, and that someone adresses her mental health condition while she’s going through this anguish. ❤️
Holy fuck.
That reads like a suicide note.😕
The needs all the support she deserves, I was rooting so much for her, IOC disapointing as always, I hope she takes some time, rests a bit, and joins mma
She’s had the worst time ever. Before this, she was manhandled by police for protesting sexual harassment of wrestlers at the hands of the head of India’s wrestling association. To get to the finals despite being distracted by all this is tremendous. To be rejected an extension to lose just 100g – after having dehydrated, starved, vomited, bled herself to reach the weight category and being hospitalised for it…when plenty of wrestlers in the past have been given that extension in the olympics – after being told by her sexual harassing association to go into the 50kg category or not go to the olympics at all….after 2016 in which she was injured so could not compete…
I get what she means when she says “wrestling has won”. Her wrestling association, her medical staff, the olympic wrestling body, they’ve all let her down. I just hope she has the support system and mental strength to shrug it all off and continue with life. Honestly, I hope she changes her mind, returns in 2028, wins gold and pulls the middle finger to all of them. But if she decides for real that she’s had enough, I understand. As an Indian supporter, fuck this Olympics honestly
This is so heartbreaking. She worked really hard for her entire life to this? I cannot believe this is real. We all as audiance are sad and imagine the pain she might be in. I am so sorry Vinesh. We all are with you.
This is what India’s government has done to its sport heroes: it destroys them.
this is horrible 😔
I hope she is surrounded by people who care for her and is safe because this is scary.
I still don’t understand why this is so tragic? Yes it is disappointing for her but cutting weight is such a normal part of the sport, there’s no way she should have had an issue as a professional, especially when her opponents didn’t have that issue. Yes it’s strict but rules are rules.
I’m not trying to be insensitive here either, perhaps I am ignorant to part of this story because I only know that she missed her weight.
Sad way to end her career.
The [Wrestling Federation of India ](https://edition.cnn.com/2024/08/07/sport/indian-wrestler-makes-history-hnk-intl-spt/index.html) has beaten her.
[Why did she “choose” to compete in the under 50 category?](https://www.business-standard.com/sports/olympics/why-vinesh-phogat-chose-the-50-kg-weight-category-amidst-uncertainty-124080800298_1.html)
Honestly, I can’t believe that such a determined athlete couldn’t cut another 100 gramms if necessary. [And there’s also this! ](https://www.thehindu.com/sport/vinesh-accuses-wfi-chief-of-trying-to-end-her-olympic-dream-fears-doping-conspiracy/article68057188.ece)
This isn’t a story about an athlete not making the cut, it’s a story about a woman being crushed by the system.
Power of destiny I guess🫤
I really hope people are keeping eyes on her for the next few days. This reads like a suicide note
C’mon WWE please let her compete on the next Superstar Spectacular (Indian feature show).