Both wrestlers were expected to dominate their respective events but failed to report for the weigh-in on time as their flight arrived late.
Vinesh Phogat is the first Indian female wrestler to bag a Commonwealth and an Asiad gold medal. She has won three gold medals in the Commonwealth Games and one at the Asian Games (Jakarta 2018).
Ahead of the upcoming Paris Olympic Games 2024, the Indian Olympic Association (IOA) has decided to dissolve the ad hoc committee, placed on December 27, for successfully conducting the selection trials for the Olympic Qualifiers.
The ace Indian wrestler Bajrang Punia and the Tokyo Olympics medalist Ravi Dahia suffered heavy defeats in their respective bouts at the ad-hoc committee-backed selection trials to select teams for the Paris Olympics qualification.
“After some arguments, Senior advocate Dayan Krishnan submits that WFI shall withdraw the circular. The trials shall proceed as per the circular of February 9. Needless to say the Ad-Hoc Committee will ensure that all the eligible athletes are allowed to participate in the trial,” the court said.
"I would like to inform all affiliated units of the Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) that the selection trials to select the teams for participation in the following events are being conducted on 10th and 11th March 2024," WFI president Sanjay Singh said.
The United World Wrestling had lifted WFI's suspension "considering all the elements and information". However, the decision has met with backlash from the wrestlers Bajrang Punia and Sakshee Malikkh as they cited that the former WFI chief and his allies will be in power again.
The ad-hoc committee is a three-member panel, headed by the Wushu Association of India president Bhupinder Singh Bajwa. Former badminton player Manjusha Kanwar and Olympian M.M. Somaya are the other two members.
The United World Wrestling body has lifted the suspension of the Wrestling Federation of India with immediate effect. The Indian wrestling body was under provisional suspension since August 23. However, the UWW has kept a few conditions while deciding to lift it.
The Union Sports Ministry of India has warned the suspended Wresting Federation chief Sanjay Singh of legal action over unsubstantiated claims. Singh in an interview on Tuesday, January 30 claimed that WFI and he will be back in power in a few days' time.
The suspended Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) president Sanjay Singh remained defiant about hosting the senior nationals and mentioned that he neither recognised the suspension of the body nor the ad-hoc committee after the Sports Ministry issued the notice.
"We got elected democratically. The Returning Officer had signed the papers, how do they ignore that. We do not recognise this ad-hoc panel. We do not recognise this suspension. The WFI is working smoothly, we are on the job," Sanjay Singh said.
The Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) remains suspended by the United World Wrestling (UWW) and the suspension is unlikely to be revoked anytime soon.
"The WFI will operate from a new address in New Delhi after vacating Brij Bhushan's premises," a source told PTI on Friday. The new Wrestling Federation of India office is reportedly located in the Hari Nagar area of New Delhi.
"I am returning my Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna and Arjun Award. Many thanks to the Almighty for bringing us to this condition," Vinesh Phogat wrote on social media and also added a letter addressed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday.
Former President of the Wrestling Federation of India (WFI), Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, said on Sunday that he has distanced himself completely from the affairs of the apex governing body for wrestling in India.
"This requires for immediate and stringent corrective measures to uphold the principles of good governance in sports organizations, and thus, now it becomes incumbent on part of the IOA to to make suitable arrangements for the interim for managing the affairs of WFI," Centre said in letter to IOA.
Sanjay Singh, a close confidante of former WFI President Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, was elected as the new President of the Wrestling Federation of India on Thursday, December 21.
EX WFI chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh has accused the protesting wrestlers of being involved with the Congress party and highlighted it as the reason why they (protesting wrestlers) aren't getting support from the other wrestlers.
The Madhya Pradesh government's PR department has termed reports suggesting that Chief Minister Mohan Yadav is contesting the election for Vice President of the Wrestling Federation of India as factually wrong and misleading.
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