Women's national coach Virender Dahiya and Manjeet Rani met the feisty wrestler, who had caused a flutter at the wrestling arena by beating world number one and defending champion Yui Susaki
India wrestler Antim Panghal and her team boarded an Air India flight to New Delhi on Thursday evening, concluding a controversial Olympics campaign in which she was ousted in the opening round before facing the prospect of a three-year ban for alleged indiscipline.
The meeting happened amid fresh violence in the state, in which at least five people were killed in Jiribam district on Saturday.
And her indomitable spirit was saluted as she received support from all quarters on social media after storming into the women's 50 kg freestyle semis, on Tuesday.
'PM spoke to IOA President P T Usha and sought first hand information on the issue and the options India has in the wake of Vinesh's setback.'
Commonwealth Games gold medallist Amit Panghal and national champion Sachin entered the semifinals of the 75th Strandja Memorial boxing event in Sofia, Bulgaria.
She has competed in other tournaments including Matrix Fight Night, where she won the straw-weight title twice.
Glimpses of Indian athletes in action at the 2024 Olympics on Sunday, July 28, 2024.
Narender Berwal (+92kg) also put up a strong fight against Ecuador's Gerlon Gilmar Congo Chala but it wasn't enough to advance to the next round
Zakia Khudadadi completed a remarkable journey to become the first athlete from the refugee team to win a medal at the Paralympics when she clinched a taekwondo bronze on Thursday.
Putting up a dominant show, all four Indian women wrestlers in action, including Aditi Kumari, Neha and Pulkit, got themselves in title contention at the Under-17 World Championships in Amman, Jordan on Wednesday.
Mahavir said he had advised her niece on the playing strategy against her strong rivals.
Wrestler Vinesh Phogat was found 100gm overweight before her 50kg category final on Wednesday.
The IOC last year stripped the IBA of its status as boxing's governing body over governance issues, and took charge of the Paris 2024 boxing competition itself, but now finds itself at the centre of a row.
Anju, Harshita reach final, Sarita Mor eliminated from Asian Championships
Antim Panghal returns to India after Olympic controversy
Babita Phogat on Thursday urged her cousin Vinesh to reconsider her decision to retire from wrestling following her disqualification from the 50kg category competition
Filipino Manny Pacquiao said a shoulder injury hampered his bid to hand Floyd Mayweather a first ever defeat as a professional on Saturday as the American improved his record to 48-0 with a unanimous decision.
Mary Kom rebuffed Nikhat's attempted hug owing to a bitter build-up to the bout.
'And when I say sabotage I mean people who are not happy to see India rise as a sporting nation. This girl has been through so much, your heart breaks for her. What more could she have done? Which other test?'
World Championships silver medallist Amit Panghal qualified for the Paris Olympic after defeating China's Chuang Liu in the 51kg quarter-finals of the second World Qualification Tournament in Bangkok on Sunday.
Vinesh has now appealed to the CAS, the apex body to settle disputes related to sport through arbitration, who will return with a verdict tomorrow
Lakshya Sen is only the third Indian men's badminton player to reach the quarter-finals at the Olympic Games.
World Championship bronze medallist Mohammed Hussamuddin went down 0-4 against Ireland's Jude Gallagher.
D Gukesh and R Praggnanadhaa played out their eighth draw in as many games at the Sinquefield Cup.
Mickey Rourke returned to the boxing ring after 20 years on Friday and defeated Elliot Seymour, who's 33 years his junior, within two rounds.
Olympic medallists Sakshi Malik and Aman Sehrawat, along with former world championship bronze-winner Geeta Phogat, on Monday announced that they would soon launch a Wrestling Champions Super League (WCSL)
A look at India's schedule at the Paris Olympics on Saturday, July 27, 2024:
'This was all conspired to gain a hold on the Wrestling Federation of India and to attack the BJP and its ideology...This team of Rahul, the Congress keeps doing these things.'
A Delhi court directed the city police on Thursday to immediately reinstate the security of a female wrestler who has accused former Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh of sexual harassment.
According to the indictment and evidence presented at the trial, between November 2007 and March 2008, Bout agreed to sell to Colombian terrorist organisation Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (FARC) millions of dollars' worth of weapons.
Abhinav Bindra on Thursday paid glowing tributes to wrestler Vinesh Phogat
The 29-year-old was set to face Sarah Ann Hildebrandt of the United States for the gold but was disqualified for the weight limit breach. A day after her disqualification, Vinesh also announced her decision to retire from wrestling.
Wrestlers Antim, Aman seeded at Paris Olympics
From battling opposition from the villagers who considered wrestling to be a man's sport, losing her father at the age of just nine, to taking on powerful federation officials, Vinesh has faced innumerable hardships on her way to realising her dreams.
On the highest step of the Olympic podium, US basketball player Brittney Griner wept, tears trickling down her face as her country's national anthem serenaded her for a gold medal she could not have imagined winning while in a Russian prison.
Two-time world champion Nikhat Zareen powered into the women's 50kg Olympics pre-quarterfinals with a tenacious victory over Germany's Maxi Carina Kloetzer in Paris on Sunday.
Ukrainians hailed their women's sabre team for winning the country's first gold of the Paris Olympics
A look at India's schedule at the Paris Olympics on Sunday, July 28, 2024:
Images from the men's singles action at the US Open on Sunday.
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