Dear vinesh

Paris Olympics: Abhinav Bindra, India’s first individual Olympics gold medallist in shooting, penned a message of support for Vinesh Phogat after meeting her at 2024 Paris Olympics, saying the wrester is someone who embodies the true spirit of a warrior.

It comes after Vinesh announced her retirement from wrestling in wee hours of Thursday due to being disqualified from women’s 50kg freestyle wrestling event, where she had made it to the final.

Vinesh, who had become the first Indian woman wrestler to reach an Olympics final in wrestling, failed to make weight for the second weigh-in hours before her final on Wednesday and was disqualified, thus losing out on an assured medal.