Mumbai: Wrestler Yogeshwar Dutt’s London 2012 Olympics medal is not gettimg an upgrade to gold as speculated by the media. The media reports also claimed that the top-place finisher Togrul Asgarov’s sample tested positive for a banned substance.
But the United World Wrestling (UWW) confirmed via a tweet that The Azerbaijan wrestler did not fail any dope test and hence his medal stands. So, Dutt’s bronze medal may be upgraded to maximum silver, not beyond that.
Yogeshwar Dutt had failed to win a match at the 2016 Rio Olympics and had originally won a bronze medal in the 60kg category at 2012 London Olympics. But after silver medallist Russia’s Besik Kudukhov, four-time world champion, who had died in a car crash in 2013 in southern Russia, was found to have used a banned substance in a test conducted by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) Yogeshwar got a sliver.
But after a short time rumours in the media began about Torgul Asgarov’s use of foreign substance before the match.
The Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) is still awaiting official news on Yogeshwar’s silver medal upgradation also with UWW yet to confirm the development, as Yogeshwar’s sample is also being tested.
The blood samples collected by WADA have been kept in deep freezer for 10 years to be tested with further technology in future.
As of now Yogeshwar Dutt still stands on the second position with no upgrade to gold.