protest against bajrang punia and vinesh phogat asian games trials exemption ioa headquater
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Vikas Bhardwaj, coach of budding player Anvili Panghal, said, “We all want to meet the top officials of the IOA. We will not accept any kind of biased decision. This is wrong. We have come here to urge the panel to withdraw the exemption given to Bajrang and Vinesh. Reigning U-20 world champion Panghal and U-23 Asian champion Sujit Kalkal strongly criticized the decision of the ad-hoc committee, terming it unfair and unjust, and claimed they were capable of defeating Bajrang and Vinesh if they were faced with them in the trials. The two, however, did not reach the Olympic Bhawan to perform.
The Bhupinder Singh Bajwa-led IOA’s ad-hoc panel, while announcing the norms for the trials on Tuesday, said trials will be held in all weight categories but they have already selected wrestlers in men’s freestyle 65kg and women’s 53kg. Panghal and Sujit have filed a petition in the Delhi High Court seeking a direction to the IOA to withdraw the exemption granted to Bajrang and Vinesh.
World Championship and Commonwealth Games silver medalist Anshu Malik, who was part of the wrestlers’ protest at Jantar Mantar in January, came out in support of the junior wrestlers, tweeting, “The biggest dream of an athlete is to make the countrymen proud by winning medals in tournaments like Olympics and Asian Games.” But if the rights of these players are taken away. Anshu, who competes in the women’s 57kg category, said, “It is justified by the junior players to demand trials and it is their right. I support the demand of junior players.
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