Vinesh Phogat CAS Hearing Live Updates: Vinesh’s hearing underway with sole arbitrator in charge of decision | Sport-others News

Vinesh Phogat Disqualification Appeal Live Updates: Vinesh Phogat’s appeal to be awarded a shared silver medal along with Yusneylis Guzman Lopez at the Paris Olympics is currently being heard a sole arbitrator at the at the Court of Arbitration of Sport, who is expected to make her decision before the Paris Olympic Games end.Vinesh Phogat was disqualified from competing in the gold medal bout in the 50kg weight class for being 100 grams over the permissible limit. A heartbroken Vinesh Phogat had announced her retirement from wrestling, even though the country and the Indian sporting fraternity had rallied around her.
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While in India sporting royalty like Sachin Tendulkar have batted for Vinesh, in the wrestling fraternity, legends like Jordan Burroughs have started a campaign on social media to see Vinesh be given a silver medal.
The Indian Olympic Association and Vinesh Phogat had initially filed an appeal on Wednesday at the Court of Arbitration of Sport seeking a new weigh-in and for Vinesh Phogat to be allowed to compete in the final. But since there was no time for the CAS’s ad hoc division to hear the case, Vinesh Phogat asked for the international court to award her a joint silver medal.
Scroll down to read all the latest updates involving Vinesh Phogat’s hearing at the Court of Arbitration of Sport to be awarded a joint silver medal at the Paris Olympics