The original winner, Australia's Sally Pearson, was disqualified after the English team protested that she should not have been allowed to run in the final because she had false started in a previous attempt to start the race. Both Pearson and England's Laura Turner had jumped the gun, but initially only Turner was disqualified. Turner refused to leave the track, saying that the background noise from the crowd had been to loud and that she had not been able to hear the starter's orders.
Turner was allowed to run under protest, but both she and Pearson were disqualified after the race was over. In Pearson's case, the news was only broken to her as she was walking out to the podium to collect her medal. Fennell admitted that there had been a "major communications blunder" in the handling of the race. It was announced yesterday that Osayomi has been stripped of her gold medal, and all her results in the Games have been nullified.
Okon waived his right to have his 'B' sample tested, and also had his results nullified. Yadav finished more than five minutes outside the medal placings, but her provisional suspension for violating the World Anti-Doping Agency's code will embarrass the hosts.
We went back through the security gates to find a small store about the size of a family lounge. It contained a number of sealed boxes, with a member of staff trying to fill the largely empty shelves.
The only other people there appeared to be competitors and officials. The quality of the produce was appalling - what appeared to be cheap 'knock off' T-shirts, some shot glasses, pens and key rings - none of which was priced. Also bizarrely there was a large stock of bottles of aloe vera bottles not CWG branded in any way. There were no mugs, no mascot themed toys, no pins. When we came to pay, there was one man hand writing receipts, and working out the price using a calculator.
There was no till at all! Given the cost of the games and the size of the population of India it seemed criminal that such a commercial opportunity was being lost. The athletics stadium has had big crowds through the weekend.
But we continue to hear stories of how difficult it is to get into events despite many empty seats. The official in charge of ticket sales was sacked yesterday. The Economic Times reports :. A top official of the organising committee OC of the ongoing Commonwealth Games was relieved of his ticketing responsibilities hours after he suggested to the top management that the practice of issuing 'complimentary' tickets be stopped, a person familiar with the development said.
Sanjiv Mittal, a joint director general of the OC, wrote in an email on 7 October, three days after the games began and when ticketing was just about emerging as an area of concern, that the practice of distributing complimentary tickets be discontinued as "buying spectators" are having to "return without tickets".
The same evening, OC chairman Suresh Kalmadi issued orders to the effect that Mittal should focus entirely on catering, the other functional area under him, and ticketing would now be handled by a junior officer, director Monica Jolly. Strangely, even as ticketing has emerged as the weakest link in OC's operations, with complaints of tickets ending up with paper recyclers and being sold in the black market, the committee has not appointed a senior officer to iron out the issues. The defining riddle of this Games has been the simultaneous existence of "Sold Out" boards at the box office outside stadia, and empty rows of seats inside.
Commonwealth Games Federation president Mike Fennell has ordered a probe into the ticketing fiasco. Hence, it may be proposed that we do not get these tickets printed except for Athletics It may not be out of context to mention here that we have been experiencing near empty stadia for some of the sports events in spite of having distributed a large number of tickets for the same," Mittal wrote in the 7 October email to Kalmadi, CEO Jarnail Singh and others.
The absence of tickets at the box office for the paying spectator is the ultimate insult to the country's citizens, who have been mute witnesses as tens of thousands of crores of tax payer's money has gone into the organization of the mega event. After enduring reports of pervasive corruption, shoddy construction and international ridicule, the ordinary sports lover is still unable to watch his favourite stars in action because the organizers are obliging the powers that be in Delhi's endless corridors of power.
Those who get the complimentary passes do not show up anyway, leading to empty arenas. South Africa beat Scotland and England beat Malaysia in the semi finals.
It was due to be held yesterday but was postponed until today after the Cypriot team appealed against the disqualification of Elana Artymata from the semis. Artymata had the fastest time of the semi-finals He was up with 90 seconds or so to go in the third, when Dilbag went berserk and started swinging wild and loose.
He pulled back to you can imagine what the crowd were like at this point with 20 seconds to go. Gallagher was reduced to running around the ring to get away from this flailing, whirling boxer who was constantly coming after him.
Unfortunately some may feel that Kerry's argument sound a little like sour grapes after losing the semi final, but here is what he said:.
The scheduling is just nonsense. If someone can play the logic to me behind that then please do. We've not played in a single evening game. It's very, very difficult to play meaningful hockey here. This is one of the few times our sport's on TV and players are struggling to run - this is not a good advert. They've done this sport a disservice. In good organisations you have real consultation - you ask players, you ask coaches and then everyone feels like they're in the same sport.
Here we just have administrators who just enjoy coming on the jollies. And below the line Andy Bull has added some boxing semi final details. Here are some more s-f results:. Fennell added: "We are concerned with the number of incidents that are coming up with the same substance.
At this stage I cannot speak very definitively as to where it's coming from but it appears that it may be coming from the use of supplements. This article is more than 11 years old.
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