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At the Nandini Nagar Mahavidyalaya here, wherever she roseate to prominence successful 2012 by winning her maiden National rubric astatine the property of 18, treble Worlds bronze medallist Vinesh Phogat asserted that she was eligible to marque a comeback astatine the elder Open ranking tourney but the Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) prevented her successful a ‘pre-planned’ way.
The Open Ranking venue, owned by erstwhile WFI president Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, attracted each the media attraction arsenic Vinesh, accompanied by her team, came present for pre-competition verification.
The WFI, which had served Vinesh a show-cause announcement and rendered her ineligible to vie connected the crushed that she had not informed it six months anterior to coming retired of retirement, turned down her request.
After gathering WFI president Sanjay Singh, Vinesh tore into the nationalist federation and blamed Brij Bhushan successful his ain backyard.
“I request clip to explicate successful item but however tin you clasp maine blameworthy earlier that?” she said connected Monday.
Vinesh said she informed the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) astir her comeback successful June 2025.
About her whereabouts failure, Vinesh said, “I apologised to the WADA. After missing 1 (on December 18), I was tested doubly and cleared to enactment successful planetary events. I privation a just chance.
“It’s pre-planned. Brij Bhushan is down each this.”
In a statement, Vinesh said the WFI ‘misinterpreted’ the timeline of her sabbatical and consequent instrumentality to contention and she had the authoritative confirmation from International Testing Agency (ITA) astir her eligibility to vie from January 1, 2026. She released a papers to backmost her claim.
Vinesh said her whereabouts failures did not magnitude to immoderate anti-doping regularisation violations.
Sanjay said the WFI “didn’t enactment successful a pre-planned way. We volition see Vinesh’s lawsuit aft receiving her reply to the show-cause”.
