new delhi firing a salvo at the so called fans and experts on social media star indian wrestler vinesh phogat denounced the negative criticism hurled at her during the world championship saying the athletes are not robotsvinesh also exhorted fellow athletes to keep working hard so that this uncalled for criticism culture endson a road to redemption vinesh became the first indian woman wrestler to win two world championship medals when she grabbed a 53kg bronze in belgrade last weekhowever her manner of defeat against mongolias khulan batkhuyag 07 in the qualification round evoked sharp criticism on social media platformsvinesh though made a strong come back as she won her two repechage rounds and then the bronze playoff without conceding a single pointthe 28yearold is not someone who holds back and she came out with a long statement that gave a sense of how hurt she was by the criticismathletes are humans and while being an athlete is a huge part of who we are it doesnt mean we work like robots every time a tournament is announced not sure if this culture is in every country or this is just india where we have so many experts sitting at home vinesh wrote in her postevery individual professional or not has chased hardships struggles and challenges through their journeydifference is the world does not comment and criticise them thinking they are experts on those professionals and their careers but we have many who consider themselves as experts on sports who think they know the efforts the hardships and what goes into training an athletevinesh questioned the unrelenting scrutiny on athleteswhy are we as athletes answerable to them about every detail when all athletes get back is comments on how they should train what they should do instead of support and encouragement when times are toughit is very discouraging when people assume they can comment on when athletes should stop or end their career when they should play and not playa win always does not mean that an athlete has done anything extra extraordinary and a loss does not mean that the athlete has not tried during that game winning and losing is a part of every athletes journey and the athletes try hard each timeshe also said the critics have no idea about the efforts and resources that go into the preparations of an athleteit is very easy to comment on these things because for them its just one day of their life after watching a match what they dont realise is these things can seriously drag along and affect the athletes state their mood especially in difficult timesthings are great with social media now connecting all fans and supporters but times were simpler when social media was not involved to spread these comments and negative criticismvinesh asked fellow indian athletes to keep dreaming and working hard and hoped that unnecessary criticism endsheres to all my fellow athletes who have the courage to repeatedly put themselves through a difficult journey