00:00Now, this process of weight cut involves a calculated restriction of food and water and
00:08we also involve a lot of excessive sweating which is done with exercise, with sauna, with
00:14steam and thereby we achieve that weight cut prior to the morning weigh-in.
00:21Now this weight cut causes weakness and causes some amount of energy depletion and this is
00:27really counterproductive to participation and hence for participation we do need to
00:34then restore energy with some amounts of water and some amounts of energy foods.
00:39So you can see this is a fine balance.
00:42If you can reduce your weight, you are going to be fighting with less stronger opponents
00:46so most wrestlers prefer that but at the same time you have to have a strategy which you
00:51are going to be able to get back your energy with enough water restoration and food.
01:00Now this is typically calculated by the team with that wrestler.
01:05So Vinesh's nutritionist and team had calculated this to be about 1.5 kgs and this is a team
01:11that has been working with her since many many years and she is extremely comfortable
01:16with that team and this has actually worked with her in the past.
01:20So she took in that 1.5 kgs which is necessary for her to be able to fight those three bouts.
01:26And I think it's important to remember that usually once you have this weight loss, it's
01:30by dehydration.
01:31So as soon as you take water, there is going to be a rebound increase in your weight and
01:38during the bouts, because she had three really difficult bouts, she did need to have some
01:42amount of water because you do want to rehydrate because otherwise it's going to be medically
01:47a problem to participate.
01:48So you do require some amount of nutrition and some amount of water.
01:53Now her post-participation weight at the end of the semi-finals in the evening was found
01:58to be 2.7 kgs more than the allowed weight.
02:04And the team and the coach started off their usual process which is of course limitation
02:10of water, no food and you started with the whole process of sweating it out.
02:16Typically you require some amount of time for that but unfortunately we didn't have
02:21too much time, we had just 12 hours.
02:23So the whole night, the entire team went ahead with this whole process of trying to reduce
02:29her weight, putting her in a steam and sauna, making her exercise and whatever was medically
02:35possible, we tried our best to try and get that weight down.
02:42And when she couldn't sweat anymore, we even had to go to some drastic measures like cutting
02:47off her hair and they wear a vest, so we shortened that vest, so even a few milligrams if we
02:54can reduce, we tried.
02:56And despite all of this, at about 7.15 to 7.30 is the weigh-in and we wanted to try
03:03the best so we got her weight done right at the end at around 7.29.
03:07It was unfortunately 100 grams over 50 kilograms.
03:12If we maybe had a few hours more, we could have achieved that 100 grams but we just didn't
03:17have that time.
03:19Now once she was disqualified, then the question was as a precautionary measure, we do need
03:26to rehydrate her and the best way to rehydrate an athlete is by giving an intravenous fluid.
03:32So we gave her a few intravenous fluids.
03:34She started eating and drinking, she's passed urine and she's otherwise perfectly normal
03:41physically and medically.
03:44We've got her blood tests done just as a precautionary measure, we always do that, that's a routine
03:49and those blood tests are also okay.
03:51And Vinesh of course has interacted with IOA President Dr. Mrs. P. T. Usha and she's told
04:00that physically and medically I'm okay but of course undoubtedly she's disappointed.
04:06This is her third Olympics, she was really keen to try and do something for the country
04:10but because of this 100 grams has been disqualified.
