Sunday, August 17, 2008
Raj Bhavsar, gymnastics, Raju Rai, badminton
Gymnast Raj Bhavsar, 28, of Houston, Texas, and badminton player Raju Rai, 25, of Atlanta, Georgia, represented the United States in the Beijing Olympics.
Bhavsar and his teammates won a Bronze medal in a triumphant performance by a team that had lost its top performers, the Hamm brothers at the very last minute. Commentators characterized Bhavsar as steadying force on the team. Always appearing calm, but also unhappy with his last pummel horse performance, Bhavsar had his parents cheering him from the stands, waving a large U.S. flag.
Bhavsar, 28, was a member of the 2001 World Championships Team that earned an unprecedented silver medal, and he helped Team USA defend that title at the 2003 Worlds. He also is the 2002 National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) All-Around Champion. In 2001, he helped Ohio State University win the NCAA title. Bhavsar, the son of Joe and Sue Bhavsar, began gymnastics at the age of three.
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Bhavsar and his teammates won a Bronze medal in a triumphant performance by a team that had lost its top performers, the Hamm brothers at the very last minute. Commentators characterized Bhavsar as steadying force on the team. Always appearing calm, but also unhappy with his last pummel horse performance, Bhavsar had his parents cheering him from the stands, waving a large U.S. flag.
Bhavsar, 28, was a member of the 2001 World Championships Team that earned an unprecedented silver medal, and he helped Team USA defend that title at the 2003 Worlds. He also is the 2002 National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) All-Around Champion. In 2001, he helped Ohio State University win the NCAA title. Bhavsar, the son of Joe and Sue Bhavsar, began gymnastics at the age of three.
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Labels: Athletics, Atlanta, badminton, Beijing Olympics, Bronze medal, Georgia, gymnastics, Raj Bhavsar, Raju Rai, Team USA, United states
Wednesday, August 13, 2008
Weightlifter Monica Devi withdrawn
India has withdrawn woman weightlifter Monica Devi from the Beijing Olympics after she failed a dope test at home, a senior Indian official confirmed on August 6.
"We have learnt she is not participating after failing a dope test," India's deputy Chef de Mission Baljeet Singh Sethi told Reuters.
Indian news agency PTI had reported on August 5 that Devi, the lone Indian lifter to participate in Beijing, had failed a test conducted on July 29.It quoted unnamed officials saying the report showing the positive result for an anabolic salt came hours before she was to leave for Beijing.
However, the tearful lifter said she was innocent and the federation criticized the state-run Sports Authority of India (SAI), whose laboratory tested the urine sample.
"I've never, ever tested positive," she told reporters in New Delhi.
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"We have learnt she is not participating after failing a dope test," India's deputy Chef de Mission Baljeet Singh Sethi told Reuters.
Indian news agency PTI had reported on August 5 that Devi, the lone Indian lifter to participate in Beijing, had failed a test conducted on July 29.It quoted unnamed officials saying the report showing the positive result for an anabolic salt came hours before she was to leave for Beijing.
However, the tearful lifter said she was innocent and the federation criticized the state-run Sports Authority of India (SAI), whose laboratory tested the urine sample.
"I've never, ever tested positive," she told reporters in New Delhi.
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Labels: anabolic salt, Beijing Olympics, Dope test, failed, Indian lifter, New Delhi, participates, politics, Sports Authority of India, weightlifter Monica Devi, withdraw
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