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Article: Sacramone out of floor exercise final after appeal rejected
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- Xinhua News Agency
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- October 19, 2006
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Sacramone out of floor exercise final after appeal rejected
AARHUS, Denmark, Oct. 19 (Xinhua) -- The International Gymnastics
Federation (FIG) rejected the U.S. appeal Thursday of requiring to
restore a half-point to Alicia Sacramone's qualifying score, keeping
Sacramone out of the floor exercise finals at the world
championships.
Sacramone is the floor exercise champion in 2005 Melbourne worlds
and the judgement of half-point deduction is enough to deprive her
chance of defending her title.
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