Farhan Akhtar ‘hopes’ Sushil Kumar refuses nationals bullion medal

Bollywood actor-director Farhan Akhtar ‘hopes’ two-time Olympic medalist Sushil Kumar does not accept a bullion medal, that he clinched in a National Wrestling Championship but even violation a sweat. Back in movement after three-long years, Sushil fought only during a initial and a second rounds before he was announced a ultimate leader in a 74kg difficulty of a event, reason in Indore, as 3 of his challengers wrestlers, including a finalist, Praveen Rana, offering him walkovers.

Farhan Akhtar
Farhan Akhtar

However, a ‘Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara’ star, who does not seem assured with a triumph, took to Twitter to voice out his opinion. ‘I reason @WrestlerSushil in high courtesy for all he has achieved by tough work, discipline, blood and sweat. Sincerely wish he does not accept a bullion in this manner. It’s not sportsmanlike,’ he tweeted. It should be remarkable a 3 opponents also overwhelmed Sushil’s feet while giving him a walkover as their reverence to India’s biggest particular Olympian.

After Sushil carried a inhabitant gold, fighting for only dual mins and 55 seconds in 5 matches, a arbitrate reportedly applauded a gesticulate of a wrestlers and said: ‘Yeh hai Bharat ki kushti ki parampara’ (This is a tradition of Indian wrestling). Finalist Rana, who was sent to a 2016 Rio Olympics by a Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) following a Narsingh-Sushil controversy, gave a walkover to a two-time Olympic medallist citing a thigh injury. The dual other wrestlers Sushil faced progressing in a day were Sachin Rathi of Uttar Pradesh and Praveen of Haryana.

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