: Tokyo Paralympics: Malaysian shot putter’s gold taken away for turning up three minutes late #IndiaNEWS The International Paralympic Committee Wednesday defended a decision to disqualify a Malaysian

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Tokyo Paralympics: Malaysian shot putter’s gold taken away for turning up three minutes late #IndiaNEWS
The International Paralympic Committee Wednesday defended a decision to disqualify a Malaysian shot putter for turning up late, leading to him being stripped of a gold medal, as anger erupted in his homeland.Muhammad Ziyad Zolkefli was allowed to compete in the F20 final in Tokyo on Tuesday despite being late, and went on to win a gold medal and break the world record. But he was later disqualified, along with two other athletes, by officials who determined they had no good reason for their late arrival at the call room. The gold went instead to Ukraine’s Maksym Koval. International Paralympic Committee spokesman Craig Spence said a referee determined there was “no justifiable reason� for Ziyad turning up late, and an appeal was subsequently rejected. Despite this, Spence said the Ukrainian athlete was now “getting a lot of abuse from Malaysians�.“People say the Ukrainian stole the gold. No, absolutely not. The Ukrainian had nothing to do with it. It was the athletes that were late,� Spence said.“There’s been a massive outpouring of emotion of many Malaysians on social media. Very abusive. Ridiculous, in my view,� he added. He said the latecomers had argued they had not heard the announcement to gather or that it was in a language...Read more

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