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Argentina beat Italy easily 3-0 yesterday and will meet Paraguay in Saturday's final of the Olympic football tournament.
The Good...
Hicham el-Guerrouj of Morocco, the most celebrated middle distance runner of our times, finally won Olympic gold in the 1,500 meters last night, after one of the most memorable races ever. Guerrouj dropped to his knees and kissed the track after the race. Bernard Lagat of Kenya was second.
The Greek women's water polo team beat Australia in the semifinal and will face Italy tomorrow for the gold medal.
Pole vault champion Yelena Isinbayeva of Russia won the gold medal and set the first athletics world record of these Olympics, with a jump of 4.91 meters. She defeated the challenge from her fellow countrywoman Svetlana Feofanova. Poland's Anna Rogowska took bronze.
The Bad...
The International Olympic Committee stripped Hungarian Robert Fazekas, who won gold in the men's discus throw, of his title yesterday for failing to provide a drug test sample in an apparent attempt to beat the screening system. He was disqualified from the competition and expelled from the games by the International Olympic Committee executive board.
Also, Belarusian high jumper Aleksey Lesnichiy was kicked out after testing positive for a banned steroid substance. He did not qualify in Friday's qualifying round and did not compete in the final.
Tom Pappas of the US, the Greek-American decathlete who was a favorite for a medal in these Games, dropped out of the competition with a knee injury.
And the Weird...
The Hungarian delegation, trying to defend Robert Fazekas, claimed that the athlete "was a deeply religious person who has always had difficulty to produce a sufficient quantity of urine in front of sample collectors.''
nyloo's daily Olympic Diary
How sad. What a shame.
Or is it just another day on the track and the field? Are we to get used to this from now on?
The International Olympic Committee stripped Hungarian Robert Fazekas, who won gold in the men's discus throw, of his title yesterday for failing to provide a drug test sample in an apparent attempt to beat the screening system. He was disqualified from the competition and expelled from the games by the International Olympic Committee executive board.
According to unconfimed reports Fazekas carried a vial with someone else's urine with him at the testing site and tried to supply the IOC doping officials with that instead of his own. He got caught.
The Hungarian delegation, trying to defend him, claimed that the athlete "was a deeply religious person who has always had difficulty to produce a sufficient quantity of urine in front of sample collectors.''
How sad, really.
On a lighter note, perhaps the most popular sport in the Athens Olympics is over. USA's Misty May and Kerri Walsh, as effortlessly as throughout the tournament, defeated second-seeded Brazilians Shelda Bede and Adriana Behar 21-17, 21-11 on Tuesday night and won the gold medal in women's beach volley.
Greeks fans were said to have feelings of emptiness and and withdrawal, after 11 nights of great spectacle ended last night.
