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2023: Face Of Protests; 2024: Face Of Indian Sport
The Morning Standard
|August 07, 2024
IN 2023, Vinesh Phogat wanted to throw all her medals into the Ganges and walk away for good.
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The public face of a protest against one of India's biggest politicianturned-sporting administrators Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh - for over the last 18 months, Phogat has now completed the set. Asian Games? Tick. Worlds? Tick. Olympics? Tick.
It's not for nothing that sports stories evoke a strange feeling of joy.
Win or lose, it's always beautiful. It can be cathartic too.
This story goes beyond the triumph of an underdog.
Considering the last one and a half years of turmoil, this is a story that can be exhibited at the Louvre. For a wrestler who decided to shift weight categories from 53kg to 50kg, this victory owes a lot to her belief.
This story is from the August 07, 2024 edition of The Morning Standard.
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