Agree with the other guy Very absurd and bad rules. She was in right limit during her silver fight so she should get the medal too.
She was fighting for so much. Brave lady.
Nope. Cheating by withdrawing blood to make the weigh-in is an automatic DQ and had she won a medal before they found out then it would have been stripped. The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has strict rules against blood manipulation. Any action that involves the withdrawal and re-infusion of blood, even if it’s the athlete’s own, falls under blood doping.
Bad take. The rules are in place to prevent the exact situation she found herself in. She was in the wrong weight class and had really bad support from her trainers.
I don’t understand with what logic this has been rejected. She was in her weight class till the final so she should be placed 2nd and awarded the silver medal jointly with the person who loses the final since they both have the same number of wins.
With your logic, a wrestler should make weight the first day, then gorge on food and water and have an unfair advantage to ensure a medal. Then forget about making weight the second day
Making the weight as many times as needed is part of any weight controlled sport. Athletes that competed in the next weight category up may have been capable of cutting down for one day but not for the next. Awarding the medal would incentivise athletes that do not think they can medal in their usual weight category to go through unsustainable weight cuts in the hope they make the final.
There should be a five pound over/under. It’s sick the things they do to try to “make weight”. God forbid you get your period or have constipation.
There can’t be a 5lb over/under when the next category is 53kg (6.6lbs heavier).
Besides, like the other commented said, it just creates a new breakpoint. If you can be “up to” 5lbs heavier than the weight class, that’s exactly what everyone will aim for, no different than making weight right now.
She was trying to game the system. That wasn’t her natural weight class. Too bad. Weight classes exist to keep people safe.
she wasn’t gaming the system, another indian wrestler qualified for her weight class before she had the chance to do the trials and this was the only option left - a disadvantage for her as we can see clearly. half knowledge is worse than having none :)
She could have gone up in weight
As someone from an Indian family, my heart truly broke for her to see her get DQ’d because I greatly admire her as a person for all that she’s stood up for, but I have to 100% agree with the decision here.
Rules are rules and they are there to prevent incentivizing anyone to drop down to a weight class that they’re not naturally in hoping for a chance to at least medal even if they can’t maintain that weight the entire tournament. That’s honestly unfair to her competitors even if she was technically legal weight when she fought them.