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Display of utter sick mentality. I don’t how much poison is filled in the brain of the writer. Brijbhushan incident is a shame but what happened here within India is totally different from what happened at paris.
Absolutely bullshit , ignorant Olympic association rules.
Her weight is usually 57 Kgs but she reduced to gain upper hand and lost in 53 Kgs so she further wanted to take advantage and fought in 50 Kgs but it was difficult for her to maintain below 50 Kgs . Accept defeat and failures with grace just don’t blame one man and party for all. The print has worst editors . And by the by I am not any party person.
It’s all bad politics…and rubbish no one had forced her to compete in 50 kg. group rather she her self participated in 50 kg .group,not only that she had even coach of her own choice,in fact she by participating in 50 kg group prevented and hindered the chance of Shivani
Its sheer misuse of platform to vent personal hatred and its evident in lies mentioned like she was forced in 50kg,whereas she got exceptional opportunity to participate in 2,not mentioning how she was defeated,how other wrestler lost opportunity. People can now read into your intention so better correct.
This is absolutely rubbish, let her keep this view with her .Athlete and her coach is resposible for the blunder .Moreover the IOA has supported with Harish salve who is very costly lawyer for tye negligence she has done .
Well written. If she does not get the medal, they will say (as they have been saying already), it is the athlete’s responsibility. If she does, they will be the first to take credit. In either scenario, they will not let her win. The only way is now for her to double down on her defiance – get into mainstream politics and defeat them. I read that the khap panchayats will support her fully – she must leverage that – if not for herself, she owes this to wrestling. She will have to ensure that the likes of Brijbhushan are shown their place. India is waking up and these remaining 4+ years will see the downfall of these jumlebaaz and paternalistic gangs.
R u putting sharing political preferences here using shoulder of vinesh to vent ur views … women challenging male dominance …today go and read news how many females are a problem in social fabric.. even social fabric is being broken for their egos … both are equal 50-50% and both needed equally to run social fabric ..dont do politics here
Giving space to opposition voices and all is fine. But when it is for absolute trash like this, you and your editorial team are testing the common sense of the average reader. I’ve been rooting for The Print for over 4 years and a subscriber but this descent towards being a yellow rag is painful. Better editorial standards please.
A disgusting and biased representation of fact. Murder of journalism In fact she is the one who had maximum entourage with her. In selection participated in 50 kg and 53 kg trial.
Politicisation of everything is not good. She is not the only player disqualified on these grounds. Players got disqualified for 50 gms too. This was known to her well. No doubt she is a great wrestler but unfortunately she succumbed to her success which is not exception. One cannot change rules either of selections at home or qualification in games retrospectively. Games are played on basis of certain set of rules applicable to all whether he/she is new or a old gold medalist.
A classic example of trying to spread false propaganda. Not a mention of how she was decimated in the Olympic trials in India and she later forced herself into a weight category much lower than where she failed. When it was a conscious decision to change the weight category you cannot point fingers at others for being not able to qualify for the final bout. In the same breath I would see a rules being formed where athletes don’t resort to these eccentric measures of rapid weight loss which put their life at risk.
Ms Vinesh Phogat has won a place in our hearts that is more valuable than an Olympic medal. Although she was professionally capable of winning a Gold. Pray she gets a shared Silver.
This is not a sports news it is a biased indian political news. How come print allows such biased political venom in sports. I will not blame Sagarika I will blame The Print and Sekhar.
I beg to disagree. Olympics is not equivalent to politics in India. There have been other wrestler this year who were disqualified due to same reason. Do you wish to say that they were disqualified due to politics in their respective countries? In that case you should have highlighted their cases as well.
Also I would wait for your expert views on R G Kar murder case and your state government inaction there, though I know you do selective politics
Sports require talent combined with discipline. I think Vimesh knew that her weight was a borderline case. She should have been aware of this and maintained strict discipline in diet so as to keep her weight well below the limit. Last minute workouts etc will not work and would only make the person weak. I think P T Usha is right. Vimesh and her coach are solely to be blamed for the mishap. They have put all Indians down by their own doing.
The ill treatment of the wrestlers by Brij Bhushan and their possible political sheltering is condemnable.
However, that has NOTHING to do with what transpired at the Olympics. This article is trying to mix up totally different issues, and going by the comments, failing miserably.
Not true. please don’t write anything that comes to your mind.Japanese wrestler was disqualified in Tokyo games for being 50 g overweight. He has himself made a statement. People ought to follow rules period. Weigh ins tale place in full public view.Please get some knowledge about competitions. We know you are a paid stooge but You can google Olympic Rules and you will get information that you need . At least behave like an MP . Also waiting for sn article on Atrocities on Bangladesh Hindus from you
Every country has its fair share of history where women were downtrodden. There is no reason to write as though being Indian and being hindu is shameful. On the contrary – we have had extraordinary examples of women rising in the ranks and leading men into battle. Of course we also have our fair share of male idiots who don’t know how to treat women right… But that’s true in every bloody country. This lady can write this in general – but no she can’t miss an opportunity to make us all feel shameful for being Indians. What a bloody rascal.
Objectivity please! I know its an extinct concept in journalism, but even by the dismal standards of modern day reporting, this story is a shocker. But what else could one have expected from the representative of a political party? She had no option but to glorify Mamta Banerjee and no option but to put down the BJP. To assume that as External Affairs minister Sushma Swaraj had no voice in foreign policy is at best speculative. And guess who has held the most powerful portfolio in the Modi Government for the last 6 years. Please tell me that Nirmala Seetharaman is a man. Further, tell me that she is non-assertive. Tell me that Finance Ministry is marginal. The cardinal rule of journalism is objectivity. It starts by never writing with a pre-conceived theory and selecting facts that support that theory. The only redeeming featurd in this whole propaganda is the line: these are the author’s personal views.
Why always print (the media supported by China) has such bad, unknown, uneducated writer’s writing these articles.
They get money by negative narrations. Seriously what made your upbringing to be soo negative for your own nation is a study in itself.
Soo bad, you are just anti Modi or current govt. Did you see topmost legal support was given to phogat. Central govt. Supported the best possible way. And you Rahul gandhi/ Congress influenced person just trying to speculate and read between the lines. Shame on you
RiP Sportsmanship and Sanity. She should be remembered for her earlier achievements, criticised for her avoidable drama at Jantar Mantar and ignominy for demanding a medal despite being rejected for being over weight. Rules are rules and she ought to have gracefully accepted the same as a true sportsperson. Alas she proved to be a sportsperson of the Congress variety.
What a shameful, politically motivated and baseless senseless article. Theprint is blocked forever.
Do you even think before posting such ridicule articles?
Kindly fact check and stop posting writings of people who are either blind to how things happen in sports and at level of Olympics or were always retard.
Why is ThePrint giving space to people like Sagarika Ghosh.
There is trend in India to bash Modi and BJP without any facts and earn reward like Rajya Sabha MP.
TMC is following DMK formula of rewarding hate mongers.
Law and Order and Ploitical violence is the worst in WB.
Look at what the communist and TMC (worse than communist) have done to a most developed state post independence.
In TN, DMK is putting Goondas on Journalst and YouTubers (Savukku Shankar) keeping them behind bars for several months putting one false case after another.
If theprint.in is serious and dehyphanated journalist as they claim in each video, they should do an objective article on Savukku.
I think theprint.in editor has taken a break when this article was published.
Many points in your article were on point but you lost me when you said that she was denied opportunity to wrestle in 53 Kg category. According to you should Ms Antim Panchal be denied that opportunity when she had hard earned that spot.
Please stop writing false articles and misguiding the public you might be paid by congress but please don’t corrupt the country that you were born in. It was no one’s fault things like these happen in sports after taking so much of governments funding and self chosen staff for Olympics no point of balming the government. It’s time for new athletes to be given chances now.
What about Sandeshkhali and today Kolkata Female Doctor brutual Rape and murder and you and your party wanted to save the culprits why because your party is most anti feamin in india who ever and whom so ever do anything with Girl Lady Female Doctor Female worker Female Farm workers but you are a bloody leeches not a utter a word for what happened in WEST BENGAL why because you sold your soul for a RS Ticket and now write this silly things why because of you and like your dirty political mind you play dirty you people and female are the true Predator of Indian Female Society,
Why did you clearly not mention the fact that she lost to Antim in Olympic Trials and that’s why she had to complete in 50kgs due to having no competition as such. No need of using propoganda thing here. You people are no better than those who are sitting in the goverment. Let the athletes take the responsibility for their own failures rather than finding excuses. She isn’t a privileged person to skip trials where every other athelete has appeared for trials. Seriously, such a low standard of journalism just like Aaj Tak. Shameful and useless people. Be it pro government or anti goverment, one thing is sure that we need to scrap today’s journalists like you who get blinded by political ideologies.
Sagarika Ghose, a known Modi hater, is given space to rave and rant. The article is full of lies to please her political Boss, Mamata Banerjee. The very same Sagarika Ghose keeps quite when goons of her party regularly cause mayhem in WB, raping, murdering and looting those opposed to her political Boss! She maintains total silence even as Hindus are massacred in the neighbouring Bangladesh, lest the TMC votebank, Muslims, take offense! The likes of Sagarika Ghose are wolves dressed in sheep clothing, masquerading as ‘secular’ politicians. They are an insult to our very political system!
Im not in the least surprised that Print has published an article full for lies rants and half truths from a discredited journalist, who alongwith her husband, the readers take with a large barrelful of salt..
Biased article . For athlete it was her 3 rd Olympic
She was very well aware of rule of games . Even other wrestlers were also disqualified before due to same rule.
It was her responsibility to maintain her weight in check within prescribed limit, which she failed to do.
Why so much noice on this ?
Keep politics out of sports and respect sports and play with spirit of the game.
Shame on people who are talking rubbish and either never played a game or don’t know how a game should be played – with honesty within rules and with sportsmanship. Period
Display of utter sick mentality. I don’t how much poison is filled in the brain of the writer. Brijbhushan incident is a shame but what happened here within India is totally different from what happened at paris.
When will Mamta banerjee act against rapes by her own party men, what’s stopping her.. Is that modi too
You’re mentally sick Sagarika . Take care
Bad and biased journalism
Please don’t take readers for granted
I think it’s better to keep your views to your self rather than publishing it publicly
What a biased article and clearly shows the victim mentality of the writer.
Get well soon.
Logic left earth after reading this article
Hurted by reading your biased article. No one has compelled her for 50kgs but she herself forced the authorities. Bad politics.
What a sorry mental state of the writer.
Doesn’t even notice how biased the article becomes just after first paragraph.
The context of the athlete is a viel to put forward her own propaganda of politics.
Would double check before reading articles from “the Print”
Absolutely bullshit , ignorant Olympic association rules.
Her weight is usually 57 Kgs but she reduced to gain upper hand and lost in 53 Kgs so she further wanted to take advantage and fought in 50 Kgs but it was difficult for her to maintain below 50 Kgs . Accept defeat and failures with grace just don’t blame one man and party for all. The print has worst editors . And by the by I am not any party person.
It’s all bad politics…and rubbish no one had forced her to compete in 50 kg. group rather she her self participated in 50 kg .group,not only that she had even coach of her own choice,in fact she by participating in 50 kg group prevented and hindered the chance of Shivani
Its sheer misuse of platform to vent personal hatred and its evident in lies mentioned like she was forced in 50kg,whereas she got exceptional opportunity to participate in 2,not mentioning how she was defeated,how other wrestler lost opportunity. People can now read into your intention so better correct.
This is absolutely rubbish, let her keep this view with her .Athlete and her coach is resposible for the blunder .Moreover the IOA has supported with Harish salve who is very costly lawyer for tye negligence she has done .
Well written. If she does not get the medal, they will say (as they have been saying already), it is the athlete’s responsibility. If she does, they will be the first to take credit. In either scenario, they will not let her win. The only way is now for her to double down on her defiance – get into mainstream politics and defeat them. I read that the khap panchayats will support her fully – she must leverage that – if not for herself, she owes this to wrestling. She will have to ensure that the likes of Brijbhushan are shown their place. India is waking up and these remaining 4+ years will see the downfall of these jumlebaaz and paternalistic gangs.
An undefeated champion indeed.
R u putting sharing political preferences here using shoulder of vinesh to vent ur views … women challenging male dominance …today go and read news how many females are a problem in social fabric.. even social fabric is being broken for their egos … both are equal 50-50% and both needed equally to run social fabric ..dont do politics here
What a wonderful article.
Giving space to opposition voices and all is fine. But when it is for absolute trash like this, you and your editorial team are testing the common sense of the average reader. I’ve been rooting for The Print for over 4 years and a subscriber but this descent towards being a yellow rag is painful. Better editorial standards please.
A disgusting and biased representation of fact. Murder of journalism In fact she is the one who had maximum entourage with her. In selection participated in 50 kg and 53 kg trial.
Absolutely ridiculous! Stop peddling your agenda. In sports, the disqualification due to weight category issues are common!
Politicisation of everything is not good. She is not the only player disqualified on these grounds. Players got disqualified for 50 gms too. This was known to her well. No doubt she is a great wrestler but unfortunately she succumbed to her success which is not exception. One cannot change rules either of selections at home or qualification in games retrospectively. Games are played on basis of certain set of rules applicable to all whether he/she is new or a old gold medalist.
A classic example of trying to spread false propaganda. Not a mention of how she was decimated in the Olympic trials in India and she later forced herself into a weight category much lower than where she failed. When it was a conscious decision to change the weight category you cannot point fingers at others for being not able to qualify for the final bout. In the same breath I would see a rules being formed where athletes don’t resort to these eccentric measures of rapid weight loss which put their life at risk.
Ms Vinesh Phogat has won a place in our hearts that is more valuable than an Olympic medal. Although she was professionally capable of winning a Gold. Pray she gets a shared Silver.
This is not a sports news it is a biased indian political news. How come print allows such biased political venom in sports. I will not blame Sagarika I will blame The Print and Sekhar.
I beg to disagree. Olympics is not equivalent to politics in India. There have been other wrestler this year who were disqualified due to same reason. Do you wish to say that they were disqualified due to politics in their respective countries? In that case you should have highlighted their cases as well.
Also I would wait for your expert views on R G Kar murder case and your state government inaction there, though I know you do selective politics
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Sports require talent combined with discipline. I think Vimesh knew that her weight was a borderline case. She should have been aware of this and maintained strict discipline in diet so as to keep her weight well below the limit. Last minute workouts etc will not work and would only make the person weak. I think P T Usha is right. Vimesh and her coach are solely to be blamed for the mishap. They have put all Indians down by their own doing.
Controverstial ex journalist & TMC RS MP 🫨 She will write shit only . Why u r lowering your standard unless u get good subscription from TMC
Looks like both husband and wife have lost their marbles and moral compasses since 2014. Bloody prestitutes. Ack thoo..
The ill treatment of the wrestlers by Brij Bhushan and their possible political sheltering is condemnable.
However, that has NOTHING to do with what transpired at the Olympics. This article is trying to mix up totally different issues, and going by the comments, failing miserably.
Stop your bullshit and nonsense and stop using Media for your personal hatred and brainwash others through your toxic intellectual thoughts.
The article is not news but a personal propaganda, probably written by disgrunted author after fight with her husband over ill cooked Macher jhol.
She has not only unnecessarily dragged unsuspecting Olympian’s name , who is already battling a war with CAS, but created a false narrative around it.
The Editor must be cautious to float such garbage in public domain.
-Thanks
Politically motivated article, just not in good taste for the Indian sports. auther must introspect.
Not true. please don’t write anything that comes to your mind.Japanese wrestler was disqualified in Tokyo games for being 50 g overweight. He has himself made a statement. People ought to follow rules period. Weigh ins tale place in full public view.Please get some knowledge about competitions. We know you are a paid stooge but You can google Olympic Rules and you will get information that you need . At least behave like an MP . Also waiting for sn article on Atrocities on Bangladesh Hindus from you
Every country has its fair share of history where women were downtrodden. There is no reason to write as though being Indian and being hindu is shameful. On the contrary – we have had extraordinary examples of women rising in the ranks and leading men into battle. Of course we also have our fair share of male idiots who don’t know how to treat women right… But that’s true in every bloody country. This lady can write this in general – but no she can’t miss an opportunity to make us all feel shameful for being Indians. What a bloody rascal.
Objectivity please! I know its an extinct concept in journalism, but even by the dismal standards of modern day reporting, this story is a shocker. But what else could one have expected from the representative of a political party? She had no option but to glorify Mamta Banerjee and no option but to put down the BJP. To assume that as External Affairs minister Sushma Swaraj had no voice in foreign policy is at best speculative. And guess who has held the most powerful portfolio in the Modi Government for the last 6 years. Please tell me that Nirmala Seetharaman is a man. Further, tell me that she is non-assertive. Tell me that Finance Ministry is marginal. The cardinal rule of journalism is objectivity. It starts by never writing with a pre-conceived theory and selecting facts that support that theory. The only redeeming featurd in this whole propaganda is the line: these are the author’s personal views.
Why always print (the media supported by China) has such bad, unknown, uneducated writer’s writing these articles.
They get money by negative narrations. Seriously what made your upbringing to be soo negative for your own nation is a study in itself.
Soo bad, you are just anti Modi or current govt. Did you see topmost legal support was given to phogat. Central govt. Supported the best possible way. And you Rahul gandhi/ Congress influenced person just trying to speculate and read between the lines. Shame on you
RiP Sportsmanship and Sanity. She should be remembered for her earlier achievements, criticised for her avoidable drama at Jantar Mantar and ignominy for demanding a medal despite being rejected for being over weight. Rules are rules and she ought to have gracefully accepted the same as a true sportsperson. Alas she proved to be a sportsperson of the Congress variety.
What a shameful, politically motivated and baseless senseless article. Theprint is blocked forever.
Do you even think before posting such ridicule articles?
Kindly fact check and stop posting writings of people who are either blind to how things happen in sports and at level of Olympics or were always retard.
Why is ThePrint giving space to people like Sagarika Ghosh.
There is trend in India to bash Modi and BJP without any facts and earn reward like Rajya Sabha MP.
TMC is following DMK formula of rewarding hate mongers.
Law and Order and Ploitical violence is the worst in WB.
Look at what the communist and TMC (worse than communist) have done to a most developed state post independence.
In TN, DMK is putting Goondas on Journalst and YouTubers (Savukku Shankar) keeping them behind bars for several months putting one false case after another.
If theprint.in is serious and dehyphanated journalist as they claim in each video, they should do an objective article on Savukku.
I think theprint.in editor has taken a break when this article was published.
Many points in your article were on point but you lost me when you said that she was denied opportunity to wrestle in 53 Kg category. According to you should Ms Antim Panchal be denied that opportunity when she had hard earned that spot.
Why is this sounding more political than about sportsmanship…something is off
Please stop writing false articles and misguiding the public you might be paid by congress but please don’t corrupt the country that you were born in. It was no one’s fault things like these happen in sports after taking so much of governments funding and self chosen staff for Olympics no point of balming the government. It’s time for new athletes to be given chances now.
This is a very nice piece of shit, completely liquefied, known as diarrhea.
Politically motivated. No facts. Kuch Bhi.com.
What about Sandeshkhali and today Kolkata Female Doctor brutual Rape and murder and you and your party wanted to save the culprits why because your party is most anti feamin in india who ever and whom so ever do anything with Girl Lady Female Doctor Female worker Female Farm workers but you are a bloody leeches not a utter a word for what happened in WEST BENGAL why because you sold your soul for a RS Ticket and now write this silly things why because of you and like your dirty political mind you play dirty you people and female are the true Predator of Indian Female Society,
Why did you clearly not mention the fact that she lost to Antim in Olympic Trials and that’s why she had to complete in 50kgs due to having no competition as such. No need of using propoganda thing here. You people are no better than those who are sitting in the goverment. Let the athletes take the responsibility for their own failures rather than finding excuses. She isn’t a privileged person to skip trials where every other athelete has appeared for trials. Seriously, such a low standard of journalism just like Aaj Tak. Shameful and useless people. Be it pro government or anti goverment, one thing is sure that we need to scrap today’s journalists like you who get blinded by political ideologies.
Sagarika Ghose, a known Modi hater, is given space to rave and rant. The article is full of lies to please her political Boss, Mamata Banerjee. The very same Sagarika Ghose keeps quite when goons of her party regularly cause mayhem in WB, raping, murdering and looting those opposed to her political Boss! She maintains total silence even as Hindus are massacred in the neighbouring Bangladesh, lest the TMC votebank, Muslims, take offense! The likes of Sagarika Ghose are wolves dressed in sheep clothing, masquerading as ‘secular’ politicians. They are an insult to our very political system!
Im not in the least surprised that Print has published an article full for lies rants and half truths from a discredited journalist, who alongwith her husband, the readers take with a large barrelful of salt..
Biased article . For athlete it was her 3 rd Olympic
She was very well aware of rule of games . Even other wrestlers were also disqualified before due to same rule.
It was her responsibility to maintain her weight in check within prescribed limit, which she failed to do.
Why so much noice on this ?
Keep politics out of sports and respect sports and play with spirit of the game.
Shame on people who are talking rubbish and either never played a game or don’t know how a game should be played – with honesty within rules and with sportsmanship. Period