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The Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) connected Friday revoked the suspension connected Paris Olympics bronze medallist Aman Sehrawat and promising wrestler Neha Sangwan for jumping their value limits and getting disqualified astatine the World championships and World under-20 championships respectively.
The WFI took the determination aft receiving apology letters from the 2 wrestlers and consulting apical coaches of the country. It has made some wrestlers eligible to instrumentality portion successful antithetic events, including the Asian Games adjacent year.
“Our coaches recommended that considering these wrestlers’ way record, they should beryllium fixed a chance. Otherwise, they would miss retired connected important events, specified arsenic the National championships (in Ahmedabad successful December) and the Pro Wrestling League (next year). After the 2 sent apology letters, saying that they would not perpetrate specified mistakes successful the future, we decided to assistance the suspension,” WFI president Sanjay Singh told The Hindu.
Neha (59kg) was overweight astatine the World under-20 championships successful Bulgaria successful August, portion Aman (57kg) missed the value stipulation astatine the World championships successful Croatia successful September.
Neha and Aman had been suspended for 2 years and 1 twelvemonth respectively.
