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Vinesh Phogat’s coach at the Paris Olympics, Volar Akos, said he feared she would have died the night before the Olympic final while cutting weight for five and a half hours. Coach Akos, who faced criticism after the disqualification of Vinesh Phogat from the Olympics, said in a Facebook post on Thursday that the team did everything possible before the weigh-in the next day so that Vinesh could play in the final.

Coach Volar Akos posted a Facebook post about Vinesh Phogat’s struggles while losing weight, but later deleted the post. Akos spoke about how eager Vinesh Phogat was to win her first Olympic medal.

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Akos said in a Facebook post, 2.7 kg extra weight after the semi-finals; Exercised for an hour and twenty minutes, but 1.5 kg was still left. Later, after a 50-minute sauna bath, she didn’t break a sweat. There was no choice and then from midnight to 5:30 in the morning, she worked on various cardio machines and wrestling moves, doing the same thing for about a quarter of an hour at a time, only taking a break of two or three minutes before starting again. Once she collapsed on the floor, but somehow we got her up and she spent an hour in the sauna. I’m not going to write something dramatic on purpose, but I thought she would have died that night while losing weight. “

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The coach added that she was moved to tears after Vinesh Phogat’s disqualification but was unfazed. “As we were talking on the way back from the hospital that night, Vinesh said, ‘Coach, don’t be sad because you told me that if I ever find myself in a tough situation and I need extra energy, I can go to the best female wrestler in the world[YuiSusakiofJapan)ImusthavethoughtlostIachievedmygoalIprovedthatIamoneofthebestwrestlersintheworldWe’veproventhatgameplansworkMedalsOlympicpodiumsarephysicalthingsPerformancecannotbetakenaway”Akossaid

To underline how important an Olympic medal is to Vinesh Phogat, the coach recounted an anecdote from the wrestlers’ protest last year, when she decided to immerse Olympic medalists Bajrang Punia and Sakshi Malik in the Ganges in Haridwar. “Vinesh had requested Sakshi and Bajrang not to immerse their hard-earned Olympic medals in the river. She requested to keep these medals for herself as they are special. But he explained to her that the journey is important and their achievements are not highlighted by medals,” he wrote.

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After Vinesh Phogat was disqualified from the Olympics, she filed a petition with the International Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) seeking a joint silver medal. Her plea was accepted and the hearing started but the date of verdict was postponed. On August 14, it was informed that her plea was rejected, even as the Arbitration of Sports said that the verdict would be on August 16. After this, she hoped to get a medal. Vinesh shared a picture of her lying on the floor on the wrestling mat with her hands over her eyes.