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4 Indian wrestlers handed temporary bans, ending Rio Olympic dreams

New Delhi: The Wrestling Federation of India on Friday issued show cause notice to four wrestlers including the two Phogat sisters -- Babita Kumari and Geeta -- and handed them temporary suspension for showing indiscipline,

India TV Sports Desk India TV Sports Desk Updated on: April 30, 2016 8:20 IST
Babita who had forfeited her repechage bout in the 53 kg
Babita who had forfeited her repechage bout in the 53 kg

New Delhi: Bringing their dreams of qualifying for the Rio Olympics to an abrupt end, the Wrestling Federation of India has issued show cause notice to four wrestlers including the two Phogat sisters -- Babita Kumari and Geeta -- and handed them temporary suspension for showing indiscipline, .

Besides the Phogat sisters, Sumit (men’s 125kg freestyle) and Rahul Aware (men’s 57kg freestyle), have also been temporarily banned.

“Four of them have been handed temporary suspension and are de-barred from taking part in the next Olympic qualification event in Istanbul,” Assistant secretary of WFI, Vinod Tomar, said on Friday.

The last Olympic qualifier -- 2nd World Qualification tournament is scheduled to take place at Istanbul, Turkey, from May 6-8.

At the recently concluded 1st World Qualification tournament in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, Babita had forfeited her repechage bout in the 53 kg, while Geeta had pulled out citing injury in the 58 kg.

Meanwhile, Sumit, who had a chance to book an Olympic berth if he had won his repechage round followed by two more bouts, but the heavyweight grappler did not turn up for his repechage bout in the 125 kg freestyle citing injury.

“All these wrestlers have shown indiscipline at the last tournament. Even if you want to forfeit your bout or have injury concern, there is a way and procedure to officially withdraw. But these wrestlers did not bother to follow any proper procedure.

 This reflects very poorly on their as well the country’s part. The world body has also debarred them from the next competition,” said the official.

It is learnt that the wrestlers have been given time till May 15 to give an explanation and then a disciplinary committee would be formed to hand punishments to these offenders.

“Sumit, in all probability, will be handed a ban because he had a chance of assuring an Olympic quota place for India in the Rio Games in 125 kg category. While Babita and Geeta did not have a chance of qualifying but they should have followed the procedure even if they did not want to fight and preserve their energy for the next qualification tournament.

“Both Babita and Geeta are barred from going to Turkey. In their place Lalita and Sakshi Malik would be taking part. Similarly, another grappler would represent India in men’s 125 kg category in the last qualifying event,” Tomar said.

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