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Uzbek stripped of silver amid doping
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November 20, 2010, Saturday
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AND on the seventh day of competition, the Guangzhou Asian Games announced its first drug cheat.
Judo silver medalist Shokir Muminov was the first athlete caught for doping, with organizers announcing yesterday that the 27-year-old from Uzbekistan had been disqualified from the games and stripped of his silver medal after failing a drugs test.
Muminov lost the gold medal match in the 81-kilogram division to South Korea's Kim Jae-bum on November 14.
Dr. Mani Jegathesan, chairman of the Olympic Council of Asia's medical committee, said Muminov's urine test taken after the competition showed traces of the banned stimulant Methylhexaneamine
The World Anti-Doping Agency recently loosened the classification of Methylhexaneamine for next year to the "specified stimulant" list, which covers drugs that are more susceptible to inadvertent use and can carry reduced penalties.
Sanctions for use of the drug can be reduced if athletes prove they did not intend to enhance performance. Penalties range from a warning to a two-year ban.
More than 10,000 athletes in 42 sports are competing in the games which end on November 27.
In the men's baseball final, South Korea beat Chinese Taipei 9-3. South Korea moved ahead 2-1 in the second inning and then capitalized on some erratic pitching, scoring four runs in the third, including two out-of-the-park home runs by Lee Dae-ho and Kang Jung-ho.
Japan won the bronze by defeating China 6-2 earlier. Five of Japan's runs were scored in the first inning.
Nida Rashid scored an unbeaten 51 and took four wickets for 16 runs to lead Pakistan to the first-ever cricket gold medal awarded at the Asian Games with a 10-wicket victory over Bangladesh in the women's Twenty20 final
After being sent into bat, Bangladesh was bowled out for 92 in 20 overs. It was Pakistan's first gold at Guangzhou, after collecting silver in wushu and a bronze in snooker.
"Today I feel women's cricket has got an ideal platform to progress back home," Rashid said. "Now more girls will take up this sport as they will definitely get inspiration from our gold-winning performance."
Earlier, Japan defeated China by seven wickets to clinch bronze. The men's competition starts on the weekend.
In men's football, North Korea is out of the tournament after losing 8-9 on penalties to the United Arab Emirates after their quarterfinal ended in a scoreless draw.
Japan advanced with a 1-0 win over Thailand. South Korea beat Uzbekistan 3-1 and Iran ousted Oman 1-0.
Three more golds
After taking the team table tennis titles, Chinese paddlers won three more golds yesterday, winning the men's, women's and mixed doubles finals.
The men's and women's singles titles will be decided today.
Wang Hao and Zhang Jike won an all-Chinese men's doubles final against Ma Lin and Xu Xin 12-2, 12-10, 10-12, 9-11, 11-5, 11-3.
Earlier Guo Yue and Li Xiaoxia completed a 11-5, 11-7, 11-6, 11-9 victory over compatriots Ding Ning and Liu Shiwen in the women's doubles final while Guo and Xu combined to take the mixed doubles crown beating Cheung Yuk and Jiang Huajun of China's Hong Kong 15-13, 11-8, 7-11, 11-8, 11-3.
Chinese twin sisters Jiang Wenwen and Jiang Tingting defended their title by winning the gold medal in duet synchronized swimming.
Performing like graceful cranes, the sisters showed their elegance and difficulty in the duet free routine, winning the title with 193.375 points.
The Japanese pair of Yukiko Inui and Chisa Kobayashi came second with 186.875 while South Korea's Park Hyun-ha and Park Hyun-sun ranked third on 177.875.
"Compared with our performance last time at the Doha Asiad, we have improved a lot in expression and techniques," said Jiang Wenwen, who together with her sister also won the World Cup in September to become the first world champion from China since the sport entered the country in the late 1970s.
Guo Yunfei beat Iranian Parisa Farshidi to take the women's 67kg taekwondo gold. The bronze medal was shared by Gulnafis Altmukhambetova of Kazakhstan and South Korean Kang Bo-hyeon.
Mohammad Bagheri Motamed of Iran beat Korean Jang Se-wook to take the men's 68kg gold.
The bronze medal was shared by China's Huang Jiannan and Lo Tsung Jui of Chinese Taipei.
Steven Wong won the BMX cycling gold for China's Hong Kong in a time of 30.37 seconds, about a second ahead of the minor medalists from Japan, Akifumi Sakamoto and Masahiro Sampei. Ma Liyun won the women's race.
Judo silver medalist Shokir Muminov was the first athlete caught for doping, with organizers announcing yesterday that the 27-year-old from Uzbekistan had been disqualified from the games and stripped of his silver medal after failing a drugs test.
Muminov lost the gold medal match in the 81-kilogram division to South Korea's Kim Jae-bum on November 14.
Dr. Mani Jegathesan, chairman of the Olympic Council of Asia's medical committee, said Muminov's urine test taken after the competition showed traces of the banned stimulant Methylhexaneamine
The World Anti-Doping Agency recently loosened the classification of Methylhexaneamine for next year to the "specified stimulant" list, which covers drugs that are more susceptible to inadvertent use and can carry reduced penalties.
Sanctions for use of the drug can be reduced if athletes prove they did not intend to enhance performance. Penalties range from a warning to a two-year ban.
More than 10,000 athletes in 42 sports are competing in the games which end on November 27.
In the men's baseball final, South Korea beat Chinese Taipei 9-3. South Korea moved ahead 2-1 in the second inning and then capitalized on some erratic pitching, scoring four runs in the third, including two out-of-the-park home runs by Lee Dae-ho and Kang Jung-ho.
Japan won the bronze by defeating China 6-2 earlier. Five of Japan's runs were scored in the first inning.
Nida Rashid scored an unbeaten 51 and took four wickets for 16 runs to lead Pakistan to the first-ever cricket gold medal awarded at the Asian Games with a 10-wicket victory over Bangladesh in the women's Twenty20 final
After being sent into bat, Bangladesh was bowled out for 92 in 20 overs. It was Pakistan's first gold at Guangzhou, after collecting silver in wushu and a bronze in snooker.
"Today I feel women's cricket has got an ideal platform to progress back home," Rashid said. "Now more girls will take up this sport as they will definitely get inspiration from our gold-winning performance."
Earlier, Japan defeated China by seven wickets to clinch bronze. The men's competition starts on the weekend.
In men's football, North Korea is out of the tournament after losing 8-9 on penalties to the United Arab Emirates after their quarterfinal ended in a scoreless draw.
Japan advanced with a 1-0 win over Thailand. South Korea beat Uzbekistan 3-1 and Iran ousted Oman 1-0.
Three more golds
After taking the team table tennis titles, Chinese paddlers won three more golds yesterday, winning the men's, women's and mixed doubles finals.
The men's and women's singles titles will be decided today.
Wang Hao and Zhang Jike won an all-Chinese men's doubles final against Ma Lin and Xu Xin 12-2, 12-10, 10-12, 9-11, 11-5, 11-3.
Earlier Guo Yue and Li Xiaoxia completed a 11-5, 11-7, 11-6, 11-9 victory over compatriots Ding Ning and Liu Shiwen in the women's doubles final while Guo and Xu combined to take the mixed doubles crown beating Cheung Yuk and Jiang Huajun of China's Hong Kong 15-13, 11-8, 7-11, 11-8, 11-3.
Chinese twin sisters Jiang Wenwen and Jiang Tingting defended their title by winning the gold medal in duet synchronized swimming.
Performing like graceful cranes, the sisters showed their elegance and difficulty in the duet free routine, winning the title with 193.375 points.
The Japanese pair of Yukiko Inui and Chisa Kobayashi came second with 186.875 while South Korea's Park Hyun-ha and Park Hyun-sun ranked third on 177.875.
"Compared with our performance last time at the Doha Asiad, we have improved a lot in expression and techniques," said Jiang Wenwen, who together with her sister also won the World Cup in September to become the first world champion from China since the sport entered the country in the late 1970s.
Guo Yunfei beat Iranian Parisa Farshidi to take the women's 67kg taekwondo gold. The bronze medal was shared by Gulnafis Altmukhambetova of Kazakhstan and South Korean Kang Bo-hyeon.
Mohammad Bagheri Motamed of Iran beat Korean Jang Se-wook to take the men's 68kg gold.
The bronze medal was shared by China's Huang Jiannan and Lo Tsung Jui of Chinese Taipei.
Steven Wong won the BMX cycling gold for China's Hong Kong in a time of 30.37 seconds, about a second ahead of the minor medalists from Japan, Akifumi Sakamoto and Masahiro Sampei. Ma Liyun won the women's race.
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