Vinesh Phogat CAS Hearing Verdict
Vinesh Phogat CAS Hearing Verdict Live: The ad-hoc division of the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) will give its decision on the appeal filed by Indian wrestler Vinesh Phogat against her disqualification from the Olympic finals by 6 pm local time (9.30 pm IST) on Tuesday. The hearing on the matter concluded in Paris after it accepted Vinesh's appeal against her ouster for being 100gm overweight on the morning of her final against eventual gold-winner Sarah Ann Hildebrandt of the USA.
In the days since Vinesh Phogat was disqualified for being 100 grams overweight on the morning of the women’s 50kg freestyle wrestling final at the Paris Olympics, Nenad Lalovic, president of United World Wrestling (UWW), has consistently expressed his sympathy while saying that his organization’s hands were tied by the rules being there in black and white. Now, with Dr Annabelle Bennett, the Australian representative from the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), set to pronounce judgment on Vinesh’s appeal before 6 pm Paris time on Tuesday (August 13), those rules could be the reason for a late twist in the tale.
UWW is right in saying that the tournament rules clearly state that a wrestler has to make the weight on both mornings of the event. Vinesh didn’t, so by the letter of the law, she was disqualified and placed last. But that’s where things take a strange turn. According to the rules, the repechage bouts – the winners of which get an opportunity to fight for bronze against the losing semi-finalists – are to be contested between the fighters who lost to the eventual finalists.
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