April 30, 2016 8:49 AM

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4 wrestlers handed temporary suspension, Rio Olympic dreams over

Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) has issued show cause notice to four wrestlers and handed them temporary suspension for showing indiscipline. This has brought their dreams of qualifying for Rio Olympics to an abrupt end. The four wrestlers include the two Phogat sisters – Babita Kumari and Geeta, Sumit (men's 125kg freestyle) and Rahul Aware (men's 57kg freestyle). Assistant secretary of WFI, Vinod Tomar, said that all the four wrestlers are de-barred from taking part in the next Olympic qualification event in Istanbul. The last Olympic qualifier – 2nd World Qualification tournament – is scheduled to take place at Istanbul, Turkey, from May 6 to 8. Mr Tomar said both Babita and Geeta are barred from going to Turkey. In their place Lalita and Sakshi Malik will be taking part. Similarly, another grappler will represent India in men's 125kg category in the last qualifying event.

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