9Photo© news18.comBajrang Punia, Ravi Dahiya Out Of Paris Olympics Qualification Race
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India’s 2020 Tokyo Olympics medallists Ravi Dahiya and Bajrang Punia bowed out of contention from the 2024 Paris Games qualification race after suffering losses in their respective bouts of the national selection trials for the upcoming qualification tournaments on Sunday.
Punia, who led the charge in the protest against the former Wrestling Federation of India President Brij Bushan Sharan Singh last year, was bettered 1-9 by Rohit Kumar in the men’s 65kg semi-final.
The 30-year-old Punia had earlier beaten Ravinder in the opening round of the trials 3-3 on criteria after the latter lost a caution point.
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