I don’t think my silver will be upgraded to gold: Yogeshwar

TIL Desk Sports/ London Olympics bronze medallist Yogeshwar Dutt has reacted sharply to reports that he could be the beneficiary of positive dope tests returned by the wrestlers who won gold and silver in the 60kg category at the 2012 Games, saying Coleman Scott of the United States, who also ended up with a bronze, should get the gold medal because he lost to the eventual champion, Toghrul Asgarov of Azerbaijan.

Media reports suggest that the Azerbaijan wrestler’s sample also returned a positive test from the World Anti-Doping Agency’s re-testing of samples collected from the Beijing and London Olympics. Earlier this week, Yogeshwar’s bronze medal was upgraded after Russian wrestler Besik Kudukhov, who died in a car crash in 2013, was stripped of his silver medal after his sample tested positive for a banned substance.

The Haryana-based wrestler shed light on the latest reports of Asgarov testing positive and Sakshi Malik’s bronze medal feat at the Rio Olympics. I have heard about these reports, but, according to me, I will only be getting the silver medal. We were two bronze medalists. I had qualified through repechage and lost to the silver medalist. The other bronze medal winner, Coleman Scott of the United States, should get the gold because he lost to the eventual champion. Thus, I don’t think my silver will be upgraded to gold.