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More fallout after Bolt's blitz
05/09/2008 22:04 - (SA)
Geneva - The Court of Arbitration for Sport on Friday said the Dutch Antilles Olympic Committee (NAOC) has filed an appeal after Churandy Martina was stripped of his silver medal in the 200m final in Beijing last month.
"The NAOC requests CAS... to annul the disqualification of Churandy Martina," the Lausanne-based court said in a statement."
Martina was disqualified after a protest by the American team that he had run out of his lane was upheld.
The move deprived the Dutch Antilles of their first ever Olympic track and field medal, and saw 2004 Olympic champion Shawn Crawford of the US take silver behind Jamaican Usain Bolt, who won the race in a world record of 19.30 seconds.
The US team had initially protested the disqualification of third American runner Wallace Spearmon, who had finished in bronze-medal position behind Bolt and Martina.
But they ultimately accepted the decision that Spearmon had in fact crossed lanes.
Another American Walter Dix - who had taken bronze in the 100m behind Bolt - moved up to bronze as a result of the two disqualifications.
- AFP
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