In this video, we dive deep into the inspiring journey of Indian wrestler Vinesh Phogat, exploring her relentless battles, both on and off the mat. From her early struggles in a conservative village to her remarkable victories at the Commonwealth Games and Asian Games, we cover it all. We also discuss the challenges she faced at the Olympics, the controversies with the Wrestling Federation of India, and her fight against injustice in the sports world. This video also highlights her recent retirement and her efforts to make Indian wrestling a safer and more supportive space for future generations.
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00:00And then the next day, the news of this qualification comes in.
00:04These wrestlers who were the pride of the country
00:07were dragged to the streets by the police.
00:09But there was cheating here.
00:11And the cheating was done by WFI.
00:13And Vinesh, this belongs to my family.
00:15He said that he couldn't even do Malal on his garland.
00:19And people were ready with their daggers.
00:21He treated me like a dead thing.
00:26Hello, friends.
00:27There's a line in the main song of Dangal film.
00:29From the womb to the grave,
00:31your story is a love story, Dangal, Dangal.
00:34This line was a perfect fit for our great Indian wrestler, Vinesh Fogarth.
00:44From childhood till now, his life has been a Dangal.
00:48He fought back against so many things and reached here.
00:51What exactly happened to him in the Paris Olympics,
00:54we will find out in today's video.
00:56The people who were against him will be exposed
00:58and Vinesh's tears will be avenged by them.
01:10In the Olympics, Vinesh had his first match
01:12with the gold medalist of the Tokyo Olympics, Yui Susaki.
01:15He had only lost 3 bouts in his entire career.
01:19Before this match, he had a record of 82-0.
01:23Many people believed that it was almost impossible to defeat him.
01:26The total match is of 6 minutes and there are 2 rounds of 3 minutes.
01:30For a long time, Vinesh defended himself in this match.
01:33But in the last 15 seconds,
01:35he gave a great shock to Yui Susaki and the match was turned around.
01:42The news of this historic victory set fire to social media.
01:45After defeating the world champion,
01:47suddenly, Vinesh became the favorite to win the gold medal.
01:51In the next stage, the European champion,
01:54Oksana Levesh, was defeated by 7-5.
01:56In the semi-final, he faced the Pan American Games champion,
02:00Yusnelis Guzman, who is a Cuban wrestler.
02:03From 5-0, Vinesh won this match in a great way
02:06and became the first Indian woman wrestler to make a place in the Olympics final.
02:11His final match was against the American wrestler, Sarah Hildebrandt,
02:14who had won the bronze medal in the Tokyo Olympics.
02:17In 2019, Vinesh had 2 bouts with her in 53 kgs.
02:20Vinesh won both these matches.
02:22Considering this and seeing Vinesh's momentum,
02:25his chance of winning the gold medal was almost sure.
02:29But then the next day, the news of his disqualification came.
02:32Vinesh Phogat has been disqualified from the Paris Olympics.
02:36Disqualified on account of being overweight.
02:38Vinesh was disqualified because he weighed more than 100 grams.
02:42On the first day, he weighed 49.9 kgs.
02:46After weighing in, he was given a recovery meal
02:48to gain some strength and to drink some water.
02:51It's normal to gain weight due to this rehydration.
02:54The planning was such that Vinesh should only gain 1.5 kgs
02:58which could be cut down overnight.
03:00And when the second weigh-in was done before the final match in the morning,
03:03then the weight should come down to 50 kgs again.
03:05But something goes wrong in the calculation.
03:08After the semi-final match, Vinesh weighed 52.7 kgs.
03:12The next morning, he had to weigh in again at 7.15 am.
03:16He had 12 hours and had to lose 2.7 kgs.
03:20Because of this, he didn't sleep even for a minute at night.
03:23He didn't drink even a drop of water and didn't eat anything.
03:26He kept running all night.
03:28He kept cycling, using the sauna.
03:31He cut his hair and removed his blood as well.
03:34After doing all this, he lost 2.6 kgs.
03:37But when it was 7.15 am,
03:40100 grams extra weight was still left.
03:42If he had a little more time, he would've lost this weight as well.
03:45But the time for the weigh-in was from 7.15 am to 7.30 am.
03:50Unfortunately, this couldn't have been possible.
03:53We have a big news for you.
03:54Vinesh Pogat has been declared unworthy in the Olympics.
03:582012 Olympic gold medalist and six-time world champion,
04:02American athlete Jordan Burrows appealed on Twitter
04:05to change the rules and give Vinesh a silver medal.
04:08The process of reducing the weight was so difficult
04:11because Vinesh's natural weight is around 55-56 kgs.
04:14So it's difficult to bring him down to 50 kgs.
04:16Although it's not like it's impossible
04:19and it's Vinesh's first time competing in this category.
04:21In July, he won a gold medal in the Spanish Grand Prix.
04:25That too in the category of 50 kgs.
04:27He had also achieved the Olympic quota in this category.
04:29Why did he come in this category?
04:31Why didn't he go in the category of 53 kgs?
04:35The reason behind this is that the quota of the 53 kgs category
04:38was lost to Antim Panghal.
04:40We'll talk about this in detail in the video
04:42about the controversy about Antim.
04:44But after this incident,
04:46Vinesh Phogat announced his retirement on Twitter.
04:50Mom, wrestling won against me.
04:52I lost.
04:53Forgive me, your dream.
04:54My courage.
04:55Everything is broken.
04:56I don't have much strength left.
04:58Goodbye wrestling.
04:59From 2001 to 2024.
05:01After this incident, our Sports Minister Mansukh Mandvi
05:04started counting the money in the parliament
05:06that he had invested 70 lakhs on Vinesh.
05:09He has been given a total of Rs. 70,45,775 for the Paris Olympics.
05:19Mr. Mansukh, should I also count your money here?
05:21Find out a new information about your BJP government in Goa.
05:25An MLA of Goa said in his assembly speech
05:27that your party's government spent Rs. 1,70,00,000
05:30only on catering services.
05:32And Rs. 1,33,00,000 was spent on staying in 5-star hotels.
05:35Rs. 4,32,00,000 on the transportation of VIPs.
05:38And you people spent Rs. 40,00,000 on eating sweets.
05:41Your politicians buy goggles worth lakhs of rupees.
05:44They buy cars worth crores of rupees.
05:45All for the public's money.
05:47And what do the public get?
05:48Broken roads.
05:49Falling bridges.
05:50Rail accidents.
05:51And you are counting the money on those players
05:53who have dedicated their body, mind and their entire life to wrestling.
05:57And made the country's name proud again and again in the world.
06:00BJP MP Hema Malini also gave a very casual, insensitive remark.
06:04It feels very strange that she got disqualified because of 100 grams.
06:08I wish she loses that 100 grams quickly.
06:11But she won't get it now.
06:13On the other hand, on social media, many people started making fun of Vinesh.
06:16They started blaming him for his defeat.
06:19I would like to tell these people to have a little empathy.
06:22Once you hear the entire story of Vinesh Fogarth,
06:24you will start shedding tears.
06:26How many ups and downs and how many struggles can someone bear in their career?
06:30You will be surprised to see.
06:32In true senses, part 2 of Dangal can be made on his story.
06:37This story begins 30 years ago.
06:39Vinesh is born in the village of Balali in Haryana.
06:42He was only 9 years old when his father's shadow rose from his head.
06:46His mother Prem Lata raised him.
06:48He fought cancer as well.
06:49Vinesh repeatedly says that he got courage from his mother.
06:53His uncle Mahavir Fogarth trained Vinesh.
06:56Along with his sister Priyanka and his cousins Geeta, Babita, Ritu and Sangeeta.
07:01All this was happening in a village where it is still common for women to wear a veil.
07:05People used to taunt that Mahavir has lost his mind.
07:08He is ruining the entire village.
07:09No shame is left.
07:11He has made a spectacle of his own daughters.
07:13Vinesh's aunt Daya used to hear that your daughter will become like a boy.
07:17Their faces will be ruined.
07:18No one will marry them.
07:20My mother used to say that your aunt was saying that what have you worn?
07:25I used to get very angry that which aunt was it? Bring her in front of me.
07:28In Dangal film, Geeta's story is shown as the eldest sister.
07:31She had won a gold medal in the 2010 Commonwealth Games.
07:34She was the first Indian woman wrestler to achieve this.
07:37In 2012, when she qualified for the Olympics,
07:40she was the first Indian female wrestler.
07:42When you see someone around you being successful,
07:45it is quite natural to be inspired by them.
07:48Similarly, Vinesh also started his winning streak.
07:51At the international level, he won a silver medal in the 2013 World Youth Championship.
07:56In the 51kg category of the 2013 Asian Wrestling Championship, he won a bronze medal.
08:00And in the Commonwealth Wrestling Championship, he won a silver medal.
08:02But the biggest breakthrough for Vinesh came in the 2014 Commonwealth Games.
08:07Which took place in Glasgow, Scotland.
08:09In the 48kg category final, he defeated a British wrestler by 11-8.
08:14At the age of 20, he won a gold medal in the Commonwealth Games.
08:18Vinesh, congratulations!
08:20This is your first Commonwealth Games.
08:22Did you think that you would become a Commonwealth Champion?
08:24Yes, I had a lot of confidence that I would become a champion.
08:26So, I thought of it.
08:27I also practiced at this level.
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09:47In 2016, Rio Olympics was held.
09:50Sakshi Malik won the bronze medal in the 58 kg category.
09:54Here, Vinesh was competing in the 48 kg category.
09:57His round of 16 match was against Romania's Emilia Vuk.
10:01Such a stunning Olympics debut
10:03has probably never been seen before.
10:04Vinesh won his first Olympic match
10:06with the help of technical superiority.
10:09This means that you hit both the shoulders of your opponent
10:11with the mat and made them hurt.
10:14Or you achieved a very big lead.
10:1610 points in Freestyle Wrestling.
10:18Vinesh won this match against Emilia from 11-0.
10:22When he reached the quarter-final,
10:23it was against China's Sun Yanan.
10:26He could have won this match as well.
10:27But before that, time gave Vinesh a hard time.
10:31During the match, he suffered an injury
10:33which made him have to be lifted from the stretcher by a mat.
10:38It was an ACL injury.
10:39Anterior Cruciate Ligament Tear.
10:42It was such a terrible injury that he started doubting
10:45if he would ever recover from this injury
10:47and be able to wrestle again.
10:48In an interview with Hindustan Times,
10:50he said that he used to start crying.
10:52He used to sleep while crying.
10:53And then he used to get up and start crying.
10:55It was a very emotional time for him.
10:58Those three months were very difficult.
11:00I didn't know anything.
11:00All I knew was that I had to cry.
11:03I had to sleep after crying.
11:04I had to cry again when I woke up.
11:06That year, he won the Arjun Award.
11:08So he went to get the award on a wheelchair.
11:10In an article in Indian Express,
11:11Vinesh said that in 2017,
11:13he also had a concussion.
11:15It was a mild traumatic brain injury.
11:18It's caused by something touching the head.
11:20If his head hit anything,
11:22it would look like a mess.
11:24If it was someone else,
11:25he would have stopped there thinking it was a game of fate.
11:27But Vinesh had something else on his mind.
11:30If life is different for a few days,
11:31we also have something else on our minds.
11:34After a gap of two years,
11:35he made his comeback in wrestling.
11:38In 2018, in Australia,
11:39Gold Coast Commonwealth Games.
11:41It was a round-robin format.
11:42The wrestlers were put in groups of four.
11:44And every wrestler had to match with the other three wrestlers.
11:48Vinesh's final match was here with
11:50Canada's Jessica McDonald.
11:53And the way he won this match,
11:55a glimpse of that historic match
11:57has to be seen on the screen.
11:58This will be a very close match.
12:01The final match of the Commonwealth Games
12:03was won by a wrestler with a score of 13-3.
12:06This is an amazing thing.
12:07Along with Vinesh,
12:09in these games,
12:10Vinesh's good friend,
12:11Neeraj Chopra, also won a gold medal.
12:13I was actually in the bus
12:15and Neeraj had just finished.
12:17And Neeraj was roaming around with a tricycle.
12:18When the athlete's friend was roaming around with a tricycle,
12:22both of them said,
12:23you take the gold and I'll also take the gold.
12:24So that feeling was very good.
12:26Just after the Commonwealth Games,
12:27Asian Games were held in Jakarta, Indonesia.
12:29And in the first match,
12:31Vinesh faced Sun Yanan.
12:33The same wrestler with whom Vinesh got injured
12:36while wrestling in the Rio Olympics.
12:38Vinesh won this match with a score of 8-2.
12:40After winning the quarter-final and semi-final matches,
12:42in the final, he faced a Japanese wrestler,
12:45Yuki Giri.
12:45Vinesh also defeated her with a score of 6-2.
12:48And she became the gold medal winner of Asian Games.
12:52The first Indian woman wrestler
12:53to win a gold medal in Asian Games.
12:55On 21st August,
12:56she shared this photo of her victory on Instagram.
12:59And the next day, on her way back,
13:01she shared this photo.
13:02In the caption, it was written,
13:03the best decision of my life.
13:05I'm happy that you've made me a Chit for life.
13:08This is Soumir Rathi.
13:09His colleagues in his fellow wrestler and railway job.
13:12After 7 years of knowing each other,
13:14they started liking each other.
13:16When Vinesh's flight landed at Delhi Airport,
13:18Soumir received him and formally proposed for marriage.
13:22He got engaged there.
13:24And he got married in December 2018.
13:26It was a very simple wedding.
13:28He invited a limited number of people.
13:30Family, relatives, fellow player and coach.
13:32There was no money given in the name of rituals.
13:35And interestingly,
13:36he took 8 rounds instead of 7.
13:38An extra 8th round,
13:40with the intention of saving his daughter,
13:42educating her,
13:43and playing games with her.
13:45The 2019 World Championship was held in Kazakhstan.
13:47Here, Vinesh won a bronze medal
13:50by beating a Greek wrestler.
13:52And in the same way,
13:54he secured his place in the Tokyo Olympics.
13:55Between Rio Olympics and Tokyo Olympics,
13:58Vinesh had played 17 tournaments.
14:00And out of these 17, he won a medal in 16 tournaments.
14:039 gold, 6 silver and 1 bronze.
14:05But then, fate takes a turn again.
14:08The COVID pandemic hits the world.
14:10To save you,
14:12there will be a complete lockdown.
14:13Coronavirus is spreading all over the world.
14:15It's spreading in India as well.
14:16The Tokyo Olympics in 2020
14:18is postponed for a year.
14:20And this happens in 2021.
14:21Pan's Prime Minister announced that
14:23he and the International Olympic Committee President
14:25agreed to postpone the Games until 2021.
14:28Vinesh was now in the category of 53 kgs.
14:30And by this point,
14:31he had become not only the queen of India,
14:32but also the queen of wrestling in the world.
14:35You heard it right.
14:36She had become the world's number one
14:38in her weight class.
14:40That's why she was seen as a strong contender
14:42to win an Olympic medal.
14:44But far from the eyes of the world,
14:46something different was going on with her.
14:48Two years ago, she was diagnosed with depression.
14:53She was in Spain when she felt
14:55that something was wrong with her.
14:56She couldn't sleep.
14:58She would stay awake for many days.
15:00When she came back to the Lucknow camp,
15:01things became more problematic.
15:03If a coach spoke to her in a slightly higher tone,
15:06she would start crying.
15:07During the Asian Championship,
15:08she felt that this disease would kill her.
15:11She said that everyone in her family
15:13helped her,
15:14but she couldn't tell everyone
15:16what was going on inside her.
15:17That's why she consulted a psychologist.
15:20In August 2020, she also got COVID.
15:22After which, her body couldn't digest protein properly.
15:26Think about it,
15:27a wrestler's entire game
15:28depends on muscles and protein.
15:30In April 2021,
15:31when she returned from the Asian Championship,
15:33she was again diagnosed with COVID.
15:35After a while, when she recovers
15:37and goes to Bulgaria,
15:38her entire family finds out that she has COVID.
15:41When this happens to a player who is playing for the country,
15:43what can we expect from the government,
15:44the authorities,
15:45and the Wrestling Federation of India?
15:48Not only will they find a solution
15:50for every player's problem,
15:52coaching, counselling, treatment, nutritionists,
15:54physiotherapists,
15:55whatever is needed,
15:56will be readily available.
15:58But here,
15:58something else was going on.
16:01When someone tells us
16:02that we have to participate in this competition,
16:04or that the sporting staff we have with us is not good,
16:07we want something better,
16:08or anything else,
16:08they didn't like it.
16:10They used to get very angry about it.
16:12And they used to follow the athlete
16:13to torture him.
16:14An example of this was also seen in the Tokyo Olympics.
16:17Despite Vinesh's repeated requests,
16:19he was not given his dedicated physiotherapist.
16:22Before a wrestler's match,
16:24cutting weight,
16:25regaining strength after the bout,
16:26and again cutting weight,
16:28all these are very technical matters.
16:29And for all this,
16:31a dedicated physiotherapist is needed.
16:33But for Vinesh,
16:34only the physiotherapist
16:36who had gone with the shooting team
16:37to the Tokyo Olympics was needed.
16:39Unfortunately,
16:40she couldn't help him,
16:41like a regular physiotherapist would.
16:44Vinesh said,
16:45on the last day,
16:45when he was cutting his weight,
16:47should he explain
16:48what happens in wrestling,
16:50or should he focus on himself?
16:51As a result,
16:52he became his own physiotherapist.
16:54On the day of his wrestling bout,
16:55when he woke up in the morning,
16:57he felt pain.
16:58He started vomiting.
17:00On the way to the stadium,
17:01he asked his physiotherapist
17:03what he could do.
17:04Vinesh's first match was
17:05with the bronze medalist of the Rio Olympics,
17:07Sophia Madsen.
17:08Vinesh won this match from 7-1.
17:11But his health was deteriorating.
17:13He was feeling like vomiting.
17:15So he couldn't eat anything.
17:16He took two capsules of salt.
17:18It didn't help.
17:19He did some breathing exercises.
17:21It didn't help.
17:22He wasn't feeling in control.
17:24And slowly,
17:25he started shivering.
17:26His body started shaking.
17:28In the next bout,
17:28he found out that he was losing.
17:30He was giving points from such a position,
17:32which he never used to give.
17:33His brain was so blocked,
17:35that he couldn't take a single takedown.
17:38It was blanked out.
17:40This defeat broke Vinesh from the inside.
17:42But Brij Bhushan was still not at peace.
17:45WFI suspended Vinesh temporarily
17:47by filing allegations of indiscipline.
17:50He was issued a show-cause notice
17:52on three charges of indiscipline.
17:54One, he was accused of not staying with his teammates
17:56and not training with them.
17:58The second reason was that
17:59he didn't wear his official kit sponsor,
18:01Shiv Naresh's jersey during the match.
18:04Vinesh, through his senior lawyer, Vidushpath Singhania,
18:06formally replied to the WFI notice.
18:08He said that he was only following the quarantine rules
18:11and regulations of the IOC and the Japanese government.
18:14Before coming there,
18:15he was training in Hungary with his coach,
18:16Bully Akos.
18:18The Indian contingent was in quarantine for three days.
18:21But when he reached there one day,
18:22he didn't have to go into quarantine
18:23because he came straight to Hungary.
18:25If he had gone,
18:26the risk of COVID spreading would have increased.
18:28That's why he stayed with the Indian 400x4 women athletes.
18:31That's why he didn't break any rules.
18:33He said that in all his training sessions,
18:36Vinesh wore the official kit of the Indian team's sponsor.
18:39Because he wore it regularly,
18:40he wasn't allowed to wash it.
18:42Before the competition started,
18:43he fell sick,
18:45he vomited.
18:46And amidst all this,
18:47he wasn't able to ensure
18:48whether he had his official jersey or not.
18:50He did make a mistake.
18:52But it was due to unintentional and incorrect planning.
18:55Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh
18:57issued a letter in response to his formal response
18:59that this answer is not satisfactory.
19:01But you are forgiven.
19:03But if you make a mistake in the future,
19:05the Wrestling Federation will have to impose a lifetime ban on you.
19:08In his open response to the Indian Express,
19:11Vinesh talked about Simone Biles.
19:12The 24-year-old American gymnast
19:14who withdrew from an event at the Tokyo Olympics
19:16while talking about mental health.
19:19USA Gymnastics had said
19:21that they wholeheartedly support Simone's decisions.
19:24And they praise her bravery
19:26that she prioritised her well-being.
19:28Vinesh wrote,
19:29we celebrate Simone Biles
19:31but can anyone say this in India?
19:33Forget about withdrawing from the event.
19:35Say this and show that you're not ready for this event.
19:38She said,
19:39I couldn't even put my garland around my neck.
19:41And people were ready with their daggers.
19:44They treated me as if I was a dead thing.
19:47No one asked what happened to Vinesh.
19:49In fact, they started passing their judgments.
19:51That you felt pressure.
19:52You felt this, you felt that.
19:54I was on the mat.
19:55So I know how it felt.
19:57Someone ask me.
19:58Pressure is on every athlete.
20:00It was on me, in Rio, and in Tokyo too.
20:02But I know how to handle pressure.
20:04I didn't lose because of pressure.
20:06After this, Vinesh told us
20:08how even after his repeated requests,
20:11his dedicated physiotherapist wasn't given to him.
20:14How he fell sick.
20:16He vomited.
20:17And during the second bout,
20:18he went blank.
20:19Not only that,
20:20WFI had questioned Vinesh's coach,
20:21Wohler Aikos.
20:23Wohler had been coaching Vinesh since 2018.
20:26And his contribution to Vinesh's success
20:27has been huge.
20:29Behind Vinesh's concentration,
20:30motivation and technique,
20:32Aikos is considered a huge contribution.
20:35He also trained Vinesh with wrestlers from different countries.
20:38So that Vinesh could reach this level.
20:40Similarly, Bajrang Punia's Georgian coach,
20:42Shako Bentindis,
20:43and Ravi Dhaiya's Russian coach,
20:45Kamal Malikov,
20:46also contributed a lot to his success.
20:49But for some reason,
20:50WFI was facing problems with foreign coaches.
20:52It was said that Aikos was also training
20:54his wife, Mariana Susten, with Vinesh.
20:57Vinesh told us that Mariana is a four-time Olympian
21:00and he helped Vinesh in his training.
21:02When COVID-19 hit,
21:03Aikos left his one-year-old son in Hungary
21:06and came to Lucknow to help Vinesh.
21:08He didn't even care about his personal life
21:11to help train Vinesh.
21:13So how can we blame him?
21:15For three years, he won so many medals
21:17with the support of his family.
21:19Do you know what's interesting here?
21:21Foreign coaches like Wohler, Aikos and Shako
21:23were roped in by sports NGOs.
21:26NGOs like Olympic Gold Quest and JSW.
21:28The question is,
21:29why did WFI have a problem with this?
21:31It was said that these NGOs should stop their interference.
21:34They are spoiling our wrestlers.
21:36And WFI can take care of its athletes' expenses.
21:39But if this is the case,
21:40why wasn't Vinesh given a dedicated physiotherapist
21:42at the Tokyo Olympics?
21:44Why didn't WFI hire such good coaches?
21:47They won't do anything on their own.
21:49Even if a sports NGO tries to help our wrestlers,
21:52they won't let them.
21:54In November 2021,
21:55JSW and OGQ, these two NGOs,
21:57were forced to sign a contract with wrestlers
22:01before WFI's involvement.
22:04The same WFI whose chief was Brij Bhushan Singh.
22:07At the same time,
22:08WFI made a controversial change in its policy.
22:11If a wrestler wins his Olympic quota,
22:13he can still be called up for a trial.
22:16And a strange condition was added to this.
22:18If WFI thinks this is necessary,
22:20only then will there be a trial.
22:22Otherwise, there won't be.
22:23Meaning, these politicians wanted to
22:25completely control our athletes.
22:27They wanted to control every aspect.
22:29This nonsense of WFI continued.
22:32In 2021,
22:33national trials were being held for the World Championship
22:35when Vinesh withdrew in the middle.
22:38It was found that he had an elbow injury
22:40due to which he had to undergo surgery.
22:42He shared his photo on social media
22:44and wrote,
22:45I had an elbow surgery.
22:46It doesn't matter how many times I fall.
22:48I will get up again.
22:50And once again,
22:51Vinesh Fogart got up.
22:53He won a gold medal.
22:55In the 2022 Birmingham Commonwealth Games,
22:57Vinesh won his third Commonwealth gold medal.
23:00In 2014, gold.
23:02In 2018, gold.
23:03In 2022, gold.
23:04He won gold medals in three consecutive Commonwealth Games.
23:08After that, in the Belgrade World Championship,
23:10he won a bronze medal again.
23:12But amidst all this,
23:13the public's anger against Brij Bhushan increased.
23:16In 2023,
23:17allegations of sexual misconduct against Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh were filed.
23:33Vinesh Fogart, Bajrang Pooni and Sakshi Malik
23:35led the protests.
23:37Even to file an FIR,
23:39these wrestlers had to sit on the Jantar Mantar.
23:42Vinesh said that
23:43if their game is spoiled to improve the wrestling of the country,
23:46it doesn't matter.
23:47These wrestlers who increased the pride of the country
23:49were then dragged on the streets by the police.
23:52These photos,
23:53which will be created in the pages of history,
23:55there may not be any other country in the world
23:57where the police of their own country
23:59are seen treating the gold medal winners of their own country in this way.
24:03And on all this,
24:04our Credit Jeevi Prime Minister,
24:06Shri Narendra Modi,
24:07remained silent.
24:08Why am I calling him Credit Jeevi?
24:10Because whenever our sports players win a medal,
24:12his phone rings immediately.
24:14He goes there to congratulate for his publicity.
24:17But when the players actually need him,
24:19his mouth is completely shut.
24:21The amazing thing is that
24:22he used to call Vinesh Fogart his family's daughter at one time
24:26when Vinesh was winning so many medals.
24:29And Vinesh,
24:30this is from my own family.
24:33But during the wrestlers' protest,
24:35he remained silent.
24:36Brij Bhushan was a BJP MP at that time
24:38and now his son,
24:39Karan Bhushan Singh,
24:40is a BJP MP.
24:41In the 2024 elections,
24:43in this way,
24:44Narendra Modi supported the wrestlers.
24:46He gave the ticket to Brij Bhushan Singh's son.
24:48During these protests,
24:49a very big propaganda campaign
24:51is launched against these wrestlers.
24:53Usually, when there is a media trial,
24:55it is against the accused people.
24:57But here,
24:58the media trial was going on against the victims.
25:01So many lies were spread against them.
25:03AI was used to morph their faces
25:06and to show that
25:07they were laughing while protesting.
25:09To defame Vinesh Sakshi and Bajrang,
25:11their IT cell did not leave any room.
25:14I had made a separate video on this.
25:16This was the one.
25:17If you haven't seen it,
25:18I'll put the link in the description.
25:20The so-called blind devotees of BJP,
25:22I want to ask them one thing.
25:24Suppose a child from your family goes to study tuition somewhere.
25:27And one day you find out
25:28that the owner of the tuition coaching centre
25:30has filed 38 cases against him.
25:3317 cases in Ayodhya,
25:3412 cases in Faizabad,
25:358 cases in Nawabganj,
25:37and 1 in Delhi.
25:38These cases were registered in different sections of IPC.
25:40Like Murder, Attempt to Murder,
25:42Arms Act, UP Gangsters Act.
25:44You find out that
25:45the owner of this coaching centre
25:46himself accepts one murder on camera.
25:49And then you find out
25:50that there are also allegations of sexual harassment against him.
25:52I want to ask you,
25:53will you still send your child to such a coaching centre?
25:56Or will you say that
25:57it's not a big deal,
25:58these are just accusations.
26:00No charges have been proved in the court yet.
26:02And the owner of this coaching centre
26:04is a BJP supporter anyway.
26:05So it's not a big deal.
26:06Think for yourself.
26:07Put yourself in that position.
26:09If you don't send your children to such a coaching centre,
26:11then how can you expect
26:12our wrestlers
26:14to work under such a WFI chief?
26:16The wrestlers who come there,
26:18whether they are boys or girls,
26:19they must also be someone's children, right?
26:20Where did the Ministry of Women and Child Affairs go?
26:22Where is this National Commission for Women?
26:24This is the failure of the entire government system
26:26that such a man was allowed to continue at such places.
26:29Later, when the elections took place,
26:31Sandhya Singh became the proxy of Brij Bhushan.
26:33In this protest,
26:34Sakshi Malik announced her retirement.
26:37I give up my wrestling
26:39and I will never see you there again.
26:42Later, Sakshi Malik was also included
26:44in the list of the world's 100 most influential people
26:46of Time Magazine.
26:47But if we come back to the story of Vinesh Fogarth,
26:49then on one hand, politics was going on here.
26:51And Vinesh tried to make Indian wrestling
26:54a safe space for all wrestlers.
26:57And on the other hand,
26:58in August 2023,
26:59during a training session,
27:00he had a knee injury in his left leg.
27:03There was a complete tear in the anterior cruciate ligament.
27:06Along with that,
27:07there was also a partial tear in the lateral collateral ligament.
27:09He said that his dream was
27:11to retain his 2018 Asian Games gold medal.
27:14But now participation was not possible.
27:17The doctor asked for surgery.
27:19In the Asian Games in Guangzhou,
27:21he could not participate due to a knee injury.
27:23And in his place,
27:24Antim Pangal won the bronze medal
27:26in the 53 kg category.
27:28Later, he also won the bronze medal
27:29in the World Championship.
27:30And in the same way,
27:31he secured his quota in the 53 kg category
27:33in the Paris Olympics.
27:36It is important to say one thing here
27:38that compassion for Vinesh
27:39should not turn into hatred for Antim.
27:41Although he lost in his first bout
27:43to 10-0 in the Olympics,
27:45but defeat and victory continue in the game.
27:47His coach Vikas said
27:48that the quota secured by Antim
27:50in the Paris Olympics
27:51was not a cheating.
27:53And this is true, friends.
27:55But there was cheating here.
27:57And WFI cheated.
27:59They themselves made a rule
28:00that the quota winners
28:01will have to go through a trial.
28:02The Ad Hoc Committee also assured
28:04that there will be a trial for the quota.
28:05But on May 21,
28:06they suddenly said
28:07that there will be no trial.
28:09On top of that, look at the nonsense.
28:10They say that this is only an exemption for this time.
28:13The president should not be considered for the future.
28:15At this time,
28:16Sanjay Singh had become the president of WFI.
28:18So if there were trials here,
28:20Antim would have to
28:21have a bout with Vinesh
28:22and the other three wrestlers.
28:24Because in March,
28:25when trials were being held
28:26at the Patiala National Institute of Sport,
28:28Vinesh finished in the top 4
28:30in the 53 kg category.
28:32If there were trials,
28:33then Vinesh would have been able
28:34to defeat Antim here
28:35and complete in the 53 kg
28:36in the Paris Olympics.
28:38But WFI snatched this opportunity
28:40from Vinesh
28:41and Vinesh had a doubt at that time.
28:43Vinesh had started feeling
28:45that WFI cannot be trusted.
28:47Who knows,
28:48the quota trials might not have done it.
28:50That's why Vinesh Fogart
28:51took a very bold decision.
28:53In these trials at Patiala,
28:54he competed not only in the 53 kg category
28:57but also in the 50 kg category.
28:59He competed in two categories
29:01so that he could not miss the opportunity
29:03to go to the Paris Olympics.
29:05Kangana Ranaut,
29:06who is the famous troll of the country,
29:07I hope she is watching this video.
29:09She writes on Instagram story
29:11that even after protesting Vinesh,
29:13Modi ji has given a chance.
29:14Kangana, this is Dangal.
29:15You don't get a chance here.
29:17You have to fight for a chance here.
29:19When the Asian Wrestling Olympic Qualifiers
29:20were held in Kyrgyzstan in April,
29:22Vinesh competed in the 50 kg category
29:24and secured his quota
29:26thanks to his spectacular performance.
29:28If Vinesh had been sitting
29:30in the 53 kg category
29:31on the basis of quota trials,
29:32on the basis of WFI,
29:34he would never have been able
29:35to reach the Paris Olympics.
29:37Sanjay Singh asks this question
29:39that why didn't the quota trials
29:40happen just for this time?
29:42Did Vinesh Fogart
29:43stop him from competing
29:45in the 53 kg category
29:46to remove his enmity with Fogart?
29:48Or was there some other reason behind it?
29:50The answers to all these questions are important.
29:52There is a need to bring transparency
29:54in the rules and regulations of WFI.
29:56We hear again and again
29:58that sportspersons are not getting
29:59proper facilities.
30:01The solution to this is important.
30:02Vinesh Fogart continued to move forward
30:04while enduring all this.
30:06He tried to make Indian wrestling
30:07a safe space.
30:09In the world of international wrestling,
30:11Vinesh Fogart has won many medals
30:13that no one can take away from him.
30:17The name of Vinesh Fogart
30:19will be written in history.
30:21The coming male and female sportspersons
30:23will always take inspiration from him.
30:25Even if he didn't win the gold medal
30:27in the Paris Olympics,
30:28but on the basis of his inspirational story,
30:30by winning the hearts of the citizens,
30:32he has won something
30:34that is more precious than a gold medal.
30:36Best wishes for his next innings
30:38and one thing I would like to say here
30:40is my request to Vinesh Fogart
30:42that when you have become such a celebrity,
30:44like other celebrities,
30:46don't promote unhealthy, sugar-loaded products
30:48in front of the public.
30:50Do whatever you want to do.
30:52If you want to become a master of your time,
30:54then the link to the time management course
30:55is in the description below
30:56or you can scan this QR code.
30:58Coupon code GOLF44.
31:00And if you liked this video,
31:01then you will also like this video
31:03where I have told the story
31:05of another Olympic champion.
31:07Thank you very much.
31:10Go, go, go!