Junior Wrestling Tournament Cancelled: On one hand the wrestlers are worried about their demands and on the other hand the junior wrestlers are also facing problems due to the cancellation of the tournament. Due to the ongoing tussle between the wrestlers and the union, the tournaments of junior wrestlers have also started getting cancelled.
Junior wrestlers left even bread and water for practice. For months, these junior wrestlers sweat, lose weight, work hard, then they get ready for each and every match and tournament, but due to the demand for the arrest of Brijbhushan Singh, the wrestling association of India The tournaments have been stopped for the time being.
What did the junior wrestlers say?
Junior wrestler Nidhi said, “To become a wrestler, you have to give up a lot. Can’t even spend time with family properly. Eating, drinking, resting and practice are the three things left in our life. This time I had to lose weight for the nationals and I did it. Lived on liquid diet Used to eat boiled food but in the end the tournaments got cancelled.
‘Didn’t feel like coming to the arena’
Another junior wrestler Manya said, “When I heard about the cancellation of the championship, I was very sad because for this the weight was reduced, the weight was also reduced, but the tournament was canceled the very next day. I used to practice for 6 hours. Food was completely reduced, used to eat half of the diet. It took a month to reduce 4 kg weight, had to give up junk food. One had to keep himself under a lot of control. When the National was canceled I didn’t even feel like coming back to the arena, but my father told me to prepare for the next time.
‘Family also makes sacrifices along with children’
The mother of a player who came to the akhada said, “I leave home with my daughter at 1 am and reach back home at 8 pm. It takes 7 hours everyday to practice, pick and drop the daughter, but Now it has become a habit, there is no problem.In the beginning there used to be a problem when the people of the neighborhood used to say why you are making the girl wrestle, why you have cut your hair, but now it does not matter.
Tournaments are getting canceled
The reason for the disappointment of these wrestlers also needs to be understood. The reason is that many tournaments for which these wrestlers united day and night were either canceled or postponed. It started with India being stripped of hosting the Asian Championships in January. After this, the senior national tournament in Gonda was canceled and then the trials were rescheduled for the Junior Asian Championship in May last month.
What did the coach of Premnath Akhara say?
Vikram Kumar, the coach and director of Premnath Arena, said, “They unite day and night for their matches. They work hard for years, but even before the championship, it is not known that the championship itself has been cancelled.” Their heart breaks. They can accept losing after fighting, but they cannot accept that there is no competition. Open trials have been held by canceling the Under-23, Under-15 National Championships and Junior Championships. 5 They will be held in Sonipat from June to June 8. In fact, the wrestlers are continuing their protest against Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, the outgoing president of Wrestling Federation of India, who has accused Brij Bhushan of sexual harassment.
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