Wallace Spearmon disqualified 200m Olympic sprint


 

Wallace Spearmon who won 200m bronze at the worlds in Osaka last year and silver in Helsinki in 2005 was disqualified 200m Olympic sprint

American Wallace Spearmon finished third but was disqualified for stepping out of his lane, so fourth-place finisher Shawn Crawford of the United States received the bronze medal.

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One Response to “Wallace Spearmon disqualified 200m Olympic sprint”

  1. sisyphus grinned Says:
    November 22nd, 2008 at 8:39 pm

    After this incident, US lodged a pro forma complaint in protest, later after reviewing the race, the track officials noticed that Churandy Martina had also stepped outside the track.
    So now the standings are:
    Bolt — Gold
    Crawford(USA) — Silver
    Dix(USA) — Bronze

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