Yui Susaki in motion towards Vinesh Phogat at Paris Olympics 2024.© Twitter
Vinesh Phogat’s disqualification from the ladies’s 50kg wrestling ultimate at Paris Olympics 2024 got here as a large heart-break for Indian sports activities followers. Nonetheless, earlier than that, Vinesh’s bouts despatched India into euphoria. She pulled off the largest upset on the Paris Video games by outwitting hitherto invincible Yui Susaki with a wonderfully deliberate technique earlier than edging previous Ukraine’s Oksana Livach to storm into the ladies’s 50kg semifinal.
The Tokyo Video games gold medallist and four-time World Champion (2017, 2018, 2022, 2023) Susaki had not misplaced any of her 82 bouts in her worldwide profession however the Japanese prime seed hardly had an concept as to what was about to hit her within the opener which she misplaced 2-3 to Vinesh Phogat.
Later, as Vinesh entered the ultimate, Yui Susaki received an opportunity within the repechage and received the bronze. However Susaki has now mentioned she dedicated ‘a betrayal’ for not profitable the gold.
“I had the honour of profitable the bronze medal on the Paris 2024 Olympics! To start with, thanks a lot for all of your help. It has actually helped me out! I wished to see my household, teammates, and followers who’ve fought with me for the previous three years to win the gold medal, however I could not do it, and I am so sorry and pissed off that I dedicated a betrayal,” Susaki wrote in a observe that was shared by United World Wrestling.
Operation comeback begins for Yui SUSAKI .#roadtoparis2024 | #wrestleparis | #wrestlingparis | #PathtoParis | #wrestling | #paris2024 pic.twitter.com/mHEgUsfQON
— United World Wrestling (@wrestling) August 12, 2024
“Regardless of the loss, encouraging phrases from all around the world and worlds that they nonetheless consider in me and can proceed to help me. I wasn’t in a position to reply, however I learn each message, one after the other, and I can not measure how a lot it touched my coronary heart, how a lot it saved my coronary heart, and the way a lot it made me wish to maintain shifting ahead. Thanks a lot! So long as there are individuals who nonetheless help me and consider in me, I’m strongly keen to maintain going onerous once more to attain my aim of turning into an Olympic champion.”
With PTI inputs
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