Heavy loss: Vinesh Phogat gets disqualified from women’s 50kg wrestling final

Weight management is crucial to wrestling. Almost all wrestlers add weight before the competition and then bring it down in the run-up to a major tournament. The reduction in most cases is up to 10 per cent of their body weight and it is done in about two weeks. Then, in the last 24 hours, they hardly eat or drink anything to bring down the weight to the permissible limit. It is extremely tough on the body but that’s how it is.