Author Topic: 15th Asian Games in Doha (Read 5237 times)

daigong · « **Reply #20 on:** December 22, 2006, 08:27:18 AM »

Oh word?? China is a Wonderland lol...damn forgot I was gonna post this...

Santhi stripped of Asiad medal: IOA

New Delhi, Dec.18 (PTI): Indian Olympic Association today confirmed that Santhi Soundarajan had failed the gender clarification test and has been stripped of her Doha Asian Games 800m silver medal.

A day after news broke out that the ace distance runner had failed the gender test at Doha, the IOA came out with a statement saying that Santhi had been disqualified from the competition on recommendations of the Olympic Council of Asia Medical Committee.

Santhi had failed the gender test after winning the medal and was pulled out of the 1500m event.

http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/007200612182110.htm

Boshabab · « **Reply #21 on:** December 28, 2006, 10:22:26 AM »

my country got couple gold medals in horse marathon and bodybluiding(not sure which weight) and in some other sports too! GJ everyone!

anirudh · « **Reply #22 on:** December 29, 2006, 01:46:48 PM »

damn i missed the wushu ....but my country did well ...leander and mahesh won the gold for our country

meowchi · « **Reply #23 on:** February 05, 2007, 11:27:46 PM »

Quote from: daigong;264698

Oh word?? China is a Wonderland lol...damn forgot I was gonna post this...

Santhi stripped of Asiad medal: IOA

Santhi had failed the gender test after winning the medal and was pulled out of the 1500m event.

Whoa wait, so that's a GUY?

trueinnuendo · « **Reply #24 on:** February 06, 2007, 04:32:17 AM »

I thought it's a 800m event, well, it doesn't matter. It's quite embarassing really. The thing is the Indian government still awarded her/him the prize money of $33,430 on humanitarian grounds.

meltay789 · « **Reply #25 on:** February 10, 2007, 04:05:06 AM »

argh! i wanted to catch in tv.but sadly i didnt