Many junior wrestlers, their folks and coaches reached the IOA headquarters on Thursday, challenging the withdrawal of exemption granted to Vinesh Phogat and Bajrang Punia from the Asian Games trials, an afternoon after their protest in Haryana’s Hisar. Around 150 other folks, together with members of the family of the wrestlers, are searching for a gathering with Indian Olympic Association (IOA) President PT Usha and ad-hoc panel leader Bhupender Singh Bajwa.
“All we want is a meeting with IOA top brass. We will not accept any biased decision. This is wrong. We are here to request the panel to withdraw exemption granted to Bajrang and Vinesh,” Vikas Bhardhwaj, the trainer of promising Antim Panghal, instructed PTI.
The reigning U-20 international champion Panghal and U-23 Asian champion Sujeet Kalkal had slammed the ad-hoc committee’s choice as unjust and unfair and asserted that they’re in a position to beating Bajrang and Vinesh if they’re pitted in opposition to them within the trials. The duo have been, alternatively, no longer provide on the IOA Bhawan.
The IOA ad-hoc panel, led via Bajwa, had on Tuesday introduced the standards, announcing trials will probably be held in all classes however they’ve already decided on the wrestlers in males’s loose taste 65kg and girls’s 53kg weight elegance.
Panghal and Sujeet have additionally filed a petition on the Delhi High Court, challenging {that a} directive be issued to the IOA ad-hoc committee to quash the exemption granted to Bajrang and Vinesh. In a tweet, World Championships and Commonwealth Games silver medalist Anshu Malik, who was once a part of the wrestlers’ protest at Jantar Mantar in January, expressed her give a boost to for the junior grapplers.
“An athlete’s biggest dream is to win medals at events such as the Olympics and Asian Games and make all the countrymen proud but what if the rights of those players are snatched,” Anshu, who competes within the ladies’s 57kg class, tweeted.
“The demand for trials by junior players is correct and it is their right. I support the demand by the junior players,” she wrote in any other tweet.