India in despair as Olympic wrestler disqualified from final despite cutting hair off
India’s Olympic contingent are devastated after the female wrestler Vinesh Phogat was disqualified before her gold medal match for not making the weight despite cutting off her hair off.
Bottom two classes...
Women's wrestling 50 kg (110 lbs) 53 kg (117 lbs)
50.1kg is definitely in the next class. She flew too close to the sun min/maxing while all other competitors managed fine, making them better competitors.
If that photo is after the haircut, there was room to lose more. :( Shave it all down! There's your 100g.
It would have been better to shit to lose 100g than to cut the hair
At that stage of a weight in, you've not even drank water the past day, there is literally not another drip of shit or pee you can willing force out of yourself.
India’s Olympic contingent are devastated after one of their marquee athletes, the female wrestler Vinesh Phogat, was disqualified hours before her gold medal match for exceeding the 50kg restriction by the weight of a medium-sized banana (100 grams) despite even cutting off her hair in an attempt to fight for gold.
Yeah, that's kind of bullshit.
There's a weight limit, and she was over it.
Is it bullshit if a high jumper just skims the bar and it falls? Or a 100m runner loses by 0.01 seconds?
This is all about the best of the best competing on a strictly defined ruleset.
Yeah as much as this sucks, and it really really sucks, I don't think we can really claim that it's bullshit or unfair. Every athlete has to conform to these standards, and they are very well known ahead of time.
The rules are there to keep the wrestlers safe. Is 0.1kg over OK? What about 0.2kg? 1kg? I mean, how much of a difference can 2.2 pounds really make when wrestling?
The thing is they know the limit. They push it (too hard IMO) to eke out every advantage. In her case she was 2kg over the day before and went on an extreme dehydration and exercise protocol to drop weight. The protocol was so bad she needed to be immediately placed on IV fluids after the weigh-in to keep her healthy. The rules are there to protect the athletes who DIDN'T go overweight by too much the day before.
Didn't read the article, but are female wrestlers in the olympics only allowed to weigh 50kg? That seems absurdly light, even for women.
She weighted 2 kilos more than allowed the day before, putting her over 50, even almost making it to 53 which would be 2 weight classes over.
They put her in dehydration, diet, "trash bag" running to get all sweat out, a Sauna in the morning of the weight-in (but she wasn't sweating anymore), they removed blood from her, and as a last measure, cut her hair.
She failed.
She needed IV injections right after the moment of the weight-in by the committee. She then was hospitalized and remains hospitalized. It seems that luckily she is fine.
Disqualification is there to prevent countries pushing their athletes through these ordeals, which have long-term consequences on their health.
There’s probably weight classes, and you have to qualify, meet the requirements, then compete within your class.
That makes way more sense.