A day after WFI ad hoc panel spelt out its selection criteria for the Asian Games and indicated that Vinesh Phogat and Bajrang Punia had been given direct entry for Asian Games, IOA on Wednesday said the final selection of wrestlers will be made ahead of departure for the continental game
Wrestlers Antim Panghal and Sujeet Kalkal on Wednesday moved Delhi High Court over the exemption given to wrestlers Bajrang Punia and Vinesh Phogat for direct entry into the Asian Games 2023 by the Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) ad-hoc.
Woman wrestler Antim Panghal has raised questions over the exemption given to wrestlers Bajrang Punia and Vinesh Phogat for direct entry into the Asian Games 2023 by the Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) ad-hoc panel and said “a fair trial should be conducted”
India's ace wrestlers Bajrang Punia and Vinesh Phogat will go directly to participate in the upcoming Asian games, Hangzhou, without appearing in the national trials, according to sources.
Indian wrestlers and Target Olympic Podium Scheme (TOPS) athletes Vinesh Phogat and Bajrang Punia are set to head out to Kyrgystan and Hungary for international training camps
The protesting wrestlers, on whose complaint Delhi Police had filed a chargesheet against Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) president Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, on Monday moved Delhi's Rouse Avenue Court seeking a certified copy of the same.
"I do not want to comment on this as it is now under the court's consideration. The matter is in the court, and the court will do its work," Singh told ANI.
Olympic medalist wrestlers Sakshi Malik and Bajrang Punia along with Vinesh Phogat took to Twitter on Sunday where they said that the government has fulfilled its promise of filing a chargesheet against Singh. Vinesh and Sakshi also announced they were taking a short break from social med
This was posted in reply to former wrestler and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Yogeshwar Dutt who had in a video expressed disappointment at reports that Indian Olympic Association's (IOA) ad hoc committee had decided to exempt protesting wrestlers from the initial trials. The report
Bajrang Punia, Sakshi Malik and Vinesh Pogat, the three Indian wrestlers protesting against the former President of the Wrestling Federation of India, Brij Bhushan Singh, went live on social media on Saturday and fiercely attacked the country's former Olympic medalist Yogeshwar Dutt. In the
Olympians Bajrang Punia, Sakshi Malik and Vinesh Phogat along with other wrestlers had been on a protest in the national capital since the beginning of this year in order to press for the arrest of the Brij Bhushan over allegations of sexual harassment.
Olympian wrestler Bajrang Punia lashed out at Olympics medallist Yogeshwar Dutt and said that he is no longer an "athlete" but a "politician" spreading hatred.