Tendulkar praises sports ethics of Vinesh Phogat, advocates for silver medal at Olympics
Mumbai: Sachin Tendulkar expressed solidarity with Vinesh Phogat who was disqualified from Olympics wrestling finals event, a few hours before the finals. He took to X, on Friday, to call the situation an 'umpire's call' and demanded Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), a sports dispute court based in Lausanne, Switzerland, that she be handed over a silver medal.
"Every sport has rules and those rules need to be seen in context, maybe even revisited at times. Vinesh Phogat qualified fair and square for the finals. Her disqualification by weight, was before the finals, and hence, for her to be robbed of a deserving silver medal defies logic and sporting sense", he said in the post.
Stressing on her unblemished sportsmanship throughout the event, Tendulkar said that disqualification of an athlete was acceptable only if he or she had breached sports ethics by any unacceptable behavior like usage of performance enhancing drugs. "In that case, to not be awarded any medal and be placed last would be justifiable. However, Vinesh bet her opponents fairly to reach the top two. She definitely deserves a silver medal", he said. Tendulkar also solicited prayers for Vineesh Phogat to get the recognition she deserves, while awaiting the verdict of the CAS.
After defeating previous Olympics champion Yui Susaki of Japan, Phoghat was scheduled to fight US wrestler Sarah Hildebrandt in her last match on Wednesday. However, she was denied the chance for being 100g overweight for the 50 kg category in which she fought.
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2001 Parliament attack anniversary: Vice Prez, PM Modi, MPs pay tributes to fallen heroes
New Delhi (PTI): Vice President C P Radhakrishnan on Saturday led Parliamentarians in paying floral tributes to those who died fending off terrorists who attacked the Parliament House in 2001.
On the 24th anniversary of the attack, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Radhakrishnan, who is also the Rajya Sabha Chair, were among the first to offer tributes.
A brief function is held outside the now old Parliament building (Samvidhan Sadan) every December 13 to mark the day.
CISF personnel presented a salute or "samman guard" at the venue, after which a moment of silence was observed to mark the anniversary. Till 2023, the CRPF used to offer 'salami shastra' (present arms).
Congress leader Sonia Gandhi, Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi, and his sister Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, a senior party leader, were also present at the event. Union ministers Kiren Rijiju, Jitendra Singh and Arjun Ram Meghwal also lined up to offer flower petals at the photographs of the personnel who went down foiling the attack.
Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla is in Latur to attend the funeral of former speaker of the Lower House of Parliament and ex-Union minister Shivraj Patil.
The attack was carried out by five armed terrorists, but personnel from the now former Parliament Security Service, CRPF and Delhi Police foiled the attack, with no terrorist being able to enter the building.
Six Delhi Police personnel, two Parliament Security Service personnel, a gardener and a TV video journalist were killed in the attack. All five terrorists were gunned down in the forecourt of the then Parliament building.
