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Article: Results of 49er medal race subject to jury hearing
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- Xinhua News Agency
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- August 17, 2008
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Results of 49er medal race subject to jury hearing
QINGDAO, China, Aug. 18 (Xinhua) -- Results of the 49er medal
race on Sunday at the 2008 Olympic Sailing Competition still
remained unofficial with the jury reconvening on Monday morning to
decide on a protest lodged after the provisional gold medallists
sailed the race in another team's boat.
Jonas Warrer and Martin Ibsen of Denmark are provisionally in the
gold medal position, but could be disqualified from the medal race
and therefore fall back to fourth overall.
The Danish team were protested by the Race Committee for sailing
the medal race in a boat borrowed from the Croatian crew, who were
not competing in the medal race, after the ...