Indian wrestler Vinesh Phogat's hope for a silver medal following her disqualification from the Paris Olympics has been further delayed as the Court Of Arbitration For Sports (CAS) has once again deferred the pronouncement of verdict over her appeal on Tuesday, August 13.
The CAS was supposed to pronounce the judgment on Tuesday, but the tribunal body for sports has once delayed to give the verdict on Vinesh Phogat's appeal for silver medal, stating that the panel has been given a time limit to give their decision and the verdict will be announced on August 16.
After the Indian Olympic Association (IOA) lodged the complaint against the International Olympic Committee (IOC) against the Phogat's disqualification, the Indian wrestler appealed to the CAS for the silver medal despite the disqualification from gold medal bout due to overweight issues.
The international tribunal court for sports accepted the Vinesh Phogat's appeal for the hearing, which was concluded on August 9, just two days before the closing ceremony of Paris Olympics. However, the CAS has delayed the pronouncement of the verdict for the third time since August 11.
After the Court Of Arbitration For Sports once again deferred the verdict on Vinesh Phogat's silver medal appeal, the fans expressed their frustration over the repeated delay by the tribunal body for sports to give their decision on the same. Fans took to their X handle (formerly Twitter) and slammed the CAS for their lack of efficiency and transparency while the referring to Indian courts' infamous practice 'Taarik Pe Taarik'.
Here's how netizens reacted to CAS delaying verdict on Vinesh Phogat's appeal for silver medal
Vinesh Phogat was disqualified from her gold medal bout after he found to be weighed 100 grams more than the permissible limit of 50kg, her weight category in wrestling at the Paris Olympics.
Phogat was assured of her maiden Olympic medal with silver after her semifinal win against Yusneylys Guzman of Cuba. However, the 29-year-old wrestler from Haryana's hopes of returning home with an Olympic medal were dashed due to her disqualification from the gold medal match.
Since Phogat was disqualified, Guzman was qualified for the final but lost to Sarah Hildebrandt of the United States Of America (USA).
This was her third Olympic participation at the Paris Summer Games, having previously represented in 2016 Rio Olympics and the 2021 Tokyo Olympics. In her Olympic debut, Phogat had a heartbreaking end to her campaign after she suffered a knee injury. In the following edition of the Games, Vinesh was knocked out after losing in the quarterfinal bout.
