I quit wrestling, says Sakshi Malik after Sanjay Singh’s selection as WFI President
Olympic bronze medallist Sakshi Malik announces that she is quitting wrestling following Sanjay Singh's victory as WFI president
New Delhi: Olympic bronze medallist Sakshi Malik on Thursday during a presser announces that she is quitting wrestling following Sanjay Singh’s victory as Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) president.
Sakshi removed her shoes and put it on the dais before leaving the press conference in tears here.
“We slept for 40 days on the roads and a lot of people from several parts of the country came to support us. If Brij Bhushan Singh’s business partner and a close aide is elected as the president of WFI, I quit wrestling.”
#WATCH | Delhi: Wrestler Sakshi Malik says “We slept for 40 days on the roads and a lot of people from several parts of the country came to support us. If Brij Bhushan Singh’s business partner and a close aide is elected as the president of WFI, I quit wrestling…” pic.twitter.com/j1ENTRmyUN
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“We have made demands for a woman president. If the president would be a woman, harassment would not happen. But, there was no participation of women earlier and today you can see the list, not even a single woman was given a position. We had fought with complete strength but this fight will continue. The wrestlers of the new generation have to fight, ” said Mallik in the press-conference.
Sanjay is a close aide of former WFI chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, who was deposed following a lengthy agitation by a group of grapplers led by Olympians Bajrang Punia, Sakshi and Vinesh Phogat.
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