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A high school cross country runner wearing a headband with a Bible verse written on it was disqualified after finishing third in the Georgia state championship. There was some backlash on social ...
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Australian runner Jaryd Clifford says he is “devastated” after being disqualified from a Paralympic event over the weekend. Clifford, 25, finished third in the men’s 5000-meter T13 final Aug ...
A French team handball player being ejected from a match, signaled by the red card held aloft by the referee. In sports, an ejection (also known as dismissal, sending-off, disqualification, or early shower) is the removal of a participant from a contest due to a violation of the sport's rules.
In a 2012 New York Post article, a New York City Marathon official calculated that "each year an average of 30 to 40 are disqualified" from the marathon. [10] In 2014, Runner's World reported that the apparent women's winner of the Chickamauga Battlefield Marathon was disqualified after her splits indicated she had not run the entire race. She ...
This table collates the total number of athletes who have been disqualified for doping at the championships by nation. Athletes with multiple disqualifications are counted as one. Where a relay team is disqualified, this is counted as one disqualification, though multiple team members may have been sanctioned. Last updated 17 March 2018
In appealing World Para Athletics’ decision, the runner hopes to have redemption one day. “That moment on the podium, they have stolen it from us. We will never have that,” she said.
In 2005, the Court of Arbitration for Sport restored the medals of the remaining five due to the fact that, according to the rules of the time, a team should not be disqualified because of a doping offense of an athlete who did not compete in the finals, but in 2008, Pettigrew admitted to the use of doping from 1997 to 2003, meaning that the ...