“Clicked Picture Without Telling Me, Pretended To Support”: Vinesh Phogat Slams PT Usha

Indian wrestler Vinesh Phogat, who had a heartbreaking exit from Paris Olympics 2024 over failed weigh-in, has made an explosive revelation from her assembly with PT Usha, the president of Indian Olympics Association (IOA). Vinesh had fallen unwell after her disqualification from the Paris Olympics 53kg freestyle wrestling remaining, over elevated weight, and was admitted to a poly-clinic within the Olympics village. PT Usha shared an image on social media the place she might be seen interacting with Vinesh within the clinic, however the wrestler has claimed that the picture was clicked with out informing her.

Vinesh, who lately joined politics by signing up with the Indian National Congress, claims that she obtained no assist from PT Usha, though the latter claimed that she stood with the heartbroken wrestler throughout that powerful time on social media.

“I don’t know what support I got there,” Vinesh mentioned throughout a chat with a native information channel. “PT Usha madam visited me at the hospital. One photo was clicked…Like you said, in politics a lot happens behind closed doors. Similarly, politics happened there (in Paris) as well. That’s why I was heartbroken. Otherwise a lot of people are saying ‘don’t leave wrestling’. For what should I continue? There is politics everywhere.”

Vinesh, livid with PT Usha’s resolution to share the image on social media claiming that she stands in assist of the wrestler, mentioned that this wasn’t the fitting solution to present assist, and was mere pretension.

“You are on a hospital bed, where you don’t know what’s happening in life outside, you are going through one of the worst phases of your life. At that place, just to show everyone you are standing with me, aap bina bataye photo kheench rahe ho, fir social media pe daal ke bol rahe ho hum saath mein khade hain (clicked a photo without telling me and then putting it on social media to say you are standing with me). “That’s not the way you present assist (pretending to). What was it greater than (posturing)!”