Sai: Spain to appeal Danish win in 49er class yachting

AAP General News (Australia)
08-19-2008
Sai: Spain to appeal Danish win in 49er class yachting:

MADRID, Aug 18 AFP - Spain says it plans to appeal to the Court of Arbitration for
Sport (CAS) over the gold medal awarded to Denmark in the Olympic 49er class sailing.\

The Danish team of Jason Warrer and Martin Kirketerp Ibsen borrowed a Croatian boat
when their mast split before the final race on Sunday.

The organisers confirmed the result after the Danish victory was the subject of a protest.

Spain's Iker Martinez de Mizarduy and Xabier Fernandez won the silver medal, and the
bronze went to Jan Peter and Hannes Peckolt of Germany.

But the head of the Spanish Olympic Committee, Alejandro Blanco, told Spanish reporters
in China that he planned to appeal the result to the Lausanne-based CAS.

"It makes no sense, we cannot go against the rules (of the yachting competition) in
the Olympic Games," Blanco said, according to Spanish newspapers Marca and El Mundo.

They said Italy may also back Spain in the appeal.

AFP mo

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