NEW DELHI, Dec 12 : India's Vinesh Phogat reversed her decision to retire on Friday, announcing a new chapter in a rollercoaster career that appeared to have ended with her dramatic disqualification on the eve of her gold medal bout at the Paris Olympics last year.

Despite starving herself for a week and spending hours in the sauna, Phogat was 100 grams overweight ahead of the women's 50kg freestyle final in Paris.

The former Asian and Commonwealth Games champion subsequently announced her retirement after she appealed at the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) but could not get her disqualification overturned.

"People kept asking if Paris was the end. For a long time, I didn’t have the answer. I needed to step away from the mat, from the pressure, from the expectations, even from my o

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