New Delhi: Phogat Vinesh India Not sure when, if at all, he will return to wrestling mats when he struggles to overcome the disappointment of his Tokyo Olympic campaign.
Five years after being gored from a mat with a crooked knee in Rio, the 26-year-old child was the top seed at the Women’s 53-kg Freestyle event in Tokyo.
Belarus Vanesa Kaladzinskaya shocked him in the quarter-finals and phoggates accused of “dissipline” by Indian wrestling federation from Japan.
As a continued celebration in India after the country’s largest medal in Tokyo, Phogat wrestled with the second Olympic disappointment.
“I know that in India, you fall as fast as you ride.
One medal (lost) and everything is finished,” he wrote in the Indian Express newspaper Friday.
“I don’t know when I will be back (to the mattress).
Maybe I won’t.
I feel better with the broken leg.
I have something to be repaired.
Now my body isn’t broken, but I’m really broken.” Phogat said he continued Feeling the effect after the concussions suffered in 2017 and twice contracted Covid-19 in the buildup to Tokyo.
The Commonwealth Games champions twice also struggled against mental health problems and talked to a psychologist but felt enough attention was not paid on problems in India.
“We celebrated Simone Biles when he said that I was not mentally ready to appear at the Olympics and did not do his obligation,” he said, referring to American gymnings who missed the majority of the Olympic event in Tokyo to focus on his mental health.
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“Try just saying it in India.
Forget about pulling wrestling, just try that you are not ready.”