Vinesh Phogat and husband Somvir Rathee anticipating first baby as former star wrestler pronounces being pregnant

“Our love story continues with a brand new chapter,” the couple posted on the social media platform with the emoji of a child’s foot and a coronary heart signal. Thought-about among the many greatest on the earth for a very long time, Vinesh made waves after qualifying for the gold medal match on the Paris Olympics. She beat Japan’s Yui Susaki in her opening bout, thus ending the latter’s 82-0 unbeaten report. It was a consequence that was touted as one of many largest upsets of the Olympics that yr. She then beat Cuba’s Yusneylis Guzman Lopez within the semi-final as she grew to become the primary Indian lady wrestler to qualify for the Olympics last.

Nevertheless, the wave of positivity got here crashing down early subsequent morning in Indian time when it turned out that Vinesh was disqualified and was made inelligible to win any medal in any respect after lacking her weight lower for the gold medal match.

It was a growth that led to very large uproar inside the Indian sports activities fraternity and the worldwide wrestling group usually. Following the disqualification, Lopez changed the Indian within the last and received silver, shedding to USA’s Sarah Hildebrandt within the last. As per the United World Wrestling (UWW) guidelines, Vinesh completed final. She did attraction to the Court docket of Arbitration for Sport for a joint silver medal plea, however it was rejected.

Vinesh introduced her retirement after which discovered success in politics. She grew to become a member of the Congress celebration and received in Julana constituency as MLA within the Haryana Meeting elections.