{"id":54910,"date":"2023-05-07T18:47:28","date_gmt":"2023-05-07T09:47:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/may\/07\/india-female-wrestlers-threaten-to-hand-back-olympic-medals-in-harassment-row"},"modified":"2023-05-07T18:47:28","modified_gmt":"2023-05-07T09:47:28","slug":"indias-female-wrestlers-threaten-to-hand-back-olympic-medals-in-harassment-row","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=54910","title":{"rendered":"India\u2019s female wrestlers threaten to hand back Olympic medals in harassment row"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President of Wrestling Federation of India accused of sexually harassing seven young female wrestlers<\/p>\n<p>They were the first women who brought Olympic glory in the wrestling ring to India. But last week several of India\u2019s top female wrestlers threatened to hand back their medals, accusing the authorities of ignoring their allegations of sexual harassment against the sport\u2019s top official.<\/p>\n<p>For the past 15 days, top wrestlers including Vinesh Phogat and Sakshi Malik have staged a protest in the centre of Delhi, sacrificing their rigorous training schedules, sleeping in the rain and facing beatings by police.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/may\/07\/india-female-wrestlers-threaten-to-hand-back-olympic-medals-in-harassment-row\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President of Wrestling Federation of India accused of sexually harassing seven young female wrestlersThey were the first women who brought Olympic glory in the wrestling ring to India. But last week several of India\u2019s top female wrestlers threatened to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":649,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[62,61,203,42,562],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-india","category-south-and-central-asia","category-sport","category-world-news","category-wrestling"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/649"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54910"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54917,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54910\/revisions\/54917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}