Suchika Tariyal had already done the hard part. She had taken her women’s traditional 60kg semifinal against Singapore’s Tiffany Teo Hui Hoon into overtime, fought through a closely-contested bout and believed she had done enough to reach the Asian Games final.
“The judges… the fight would have gone in my favour, but they didn’t even listen to our side. They rejected the objection and decided it based on weight, saying her weight was lower. “I didn’t fail the weigh-in, I gave my full weight strictly under 60kg.
“I did not agree with this decision at all, even on the mat, because this decision was not fair,” Suchika told HT. “Today her weight was 700 grams lighter than mine,” Suchika said. If I had weighed in a bit lower, maybe I could have won today.”
Because you need to have breakfast, recover, and play, so sir said, ‘You just go give your weight, don’t delay it,. “But the thing is, in the morning they didn’t even allow the coach inside. “The federation, our international federation, is from Singapore.
That girl was also from Singapore…” said Suchika.
