Successful people try again after setback: Ex-coach on Vinesh

MAT is the space she has ruled over a decade and a space she feels at home.

- INDRANEEL DAS @Chennai

In Paris, last year, that safe haven broke her too. After beating the world’s best wrestler in her weight category, she was on course for the biggest prize the planet could offer in sport — gold at Olympics. The night passed by and it was just a matter of hours before she would be facing her adversary, USA‘s Sarah Hildebrandt — going by Vinesh’s form, the final was supposed to be a formality.

Yet, as fate would have it, she was overweight by 100 grams. She was broken and bruised both physically and mentally and came back empty handed. Announcement of retirement followed. By her side, through those moments of trials and tribulations, was her coach Woller Akos. If anybody would have known what had happened that night it was the Hungarian who was with her trying to shed those extra pounds as the clock ticked towards doom (the hour of weigh-in).