Get Well Soon, Vinesh! Twitter Offers Sympathy to Injured Athlete

Vinesh Phogat injured her knee in the quarter final match at Rio Olympics.

India’s biggest medal hope in women’s wrestling at Rio, Vinesh Phogat was eliminated from the competition after she dislocated her knee during the 48kg quarterfinal fight against China’s Sun Yanan.

Seen crying in pain after hurting her knee, Vinesh was forced to concede the match and will not be allowed to compete in repechage even if her victor does make the finals.

Even as the 21-year-old was being stretchered off the arena in tears, Indian fans back home showered their support on her with a deluge of tweets.

Fate got the better of @phogat_vinesh at #Rio2016 It was heartbreaking to see your bout end like this. Wish you a speedy recovery.

— sachin tendulkar (@sachin_rt) August 17, 2016

This Vinesh Phogat was just too good. Nice to say so sometimes!

— Harsha Bhogle (@bhogleharsha) August 17, 2016

Unfortunate to see @phogat_vinesh not able to complete her match due to injury. Great Courage & Fighting Spirit showed by her.#wrestling

— Vijay Goel (@VijayGoelBJP) August 17, 2016

Vinesh Phogat. Respect. Salute. Wish you strength #Olympics2016

— Raghu Ram (@tweetfromRaghu) August 17, 2016

Get well soon @phogat_vinesh pic.twitter.com/AHdMxo4eWR

— Ankit kadian (@Ankitkadian_) August 17, 2016

U spend months training for this moment, & when you've got glory in your grasp, you get undone by a freak injury. #GetWellSoon #VineshPhogat

— Swapnil tripathi (@Swapniltripath9) August 17, 2016

Vinesh Phogat injured! Heartbreaking to see her in such pain! Sad to see such hard work end suddenly with an injury pic.twitter.com/0vICz8JA6i

— Anjana Om Kashyap (@anjanaomkashyap) August 17, 2016

#Rio2016 #Wrestling
Hard luck #VineshPhogat
Fought well made #Ind proud!
The fate win in ur bout...True sportsmanship from Chinese wrestler👏

— Sathish Kumar (@sathishraina348) August 17, 2016

This feels awful. @phogat_vinesh won her first bout 11-0 and was leading 1-0 before sustaining that horrible injury #RioOlympics2016

— Shikharr Chandra (@ShikharrC) August 17, 2016

Get well soon,@phogat_vinesh You're a champion!

— Mahabir Phogat (@MahabirPhogat) August 17, 2016