June 6, 2016 7:33 AM

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'Judgement Day' for Sushil, Narsingh as HC to give verdict today

Delhi High Court will pronounce its verdict today on who gets to board the flight to Rio Olympics between wrestlers Sushil Kumar and Narsingh Yadav. An unfavorable verdict for Sushil may not be the end on the legal front as he can still challenge the ruling in the Supreme Court. But it could well signal the end of the road for perhaps the greatest Indian Olympian, who won two back-to-back medals. With less than two months left for the Olympics, starting 5th August, the future looks bleak for the grappler from Haryana whose injuries played a part in the entire sequence of events leading upto today.The Delhi High Court, in its last hearing on Thursday, gave clear indications that it was likely to give a judgement in favour of the Wrestling Federation of India, WFI in the tiff over selection trials in the men's 74kg freestyle category. The court had observed that it did not find any statutory mandate to hold selection trials before the Olympics.Narsingh had secured the Olympic quota place for India last year at the World Championship in Las Vegas after winning a bronze medal. Since then the Maharashtra grappler has been staking his claim for the berth and the WFI had also been steadfast in its stand to send Narsingh to Rio since he had grabbed the quota. Going by norms in WFI guidelines, a quota belongs to the country and not to an individual wrestler, and former world champion Sushil pointed out that there should be a trial in 74kg category to decide who would go to Rio.

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