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NEW DELHI: It remains a very long shot but India's most decorated medal winner on the world athletic stage, Anju Bobby George, could find her name associated with an Olympic silver medal if efforts to launch an investigation into the results of the 2004 Athens Games long jump event are successful.
Anju, India's only athlete to win a medal at the World Track and Field Championships, and her husband Bobby George along with two other female athletes have called for a probe into the event they contested 13 years ago, where they believe they were cheated out of Olympic medals
At the 2004 Games, Anju made the finals and broke the national long jump record with 6.83m, which still stands, ultimately finishing at fifth place. At fourth was Australia's Bronwyn Thompson and behind Anju at sixth was Britain's Jade Johnson
All three Russians who won medals in the event - Tatyana Lebedeva, Irina Meleshina and Tatyana Kotova - have since failed drugs tests, prompting Anju, Thompson and Johnson to approach their respective national sports federations to support their cases. According to Bobby George, himself a former sportsman and coach, the trio intends on approaching the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) and the International Olympic Committee (IOC).
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Anju, India's only athlete to win a medal at the World Track and Field Championships, and her husband Bobby George along with two other female athletes have called for a probe into the event they contested 13 years ago, where they believe they were cheated out of Olympic medals
At the 2004 Games, Anju made the finals and broke the national long jump record with 6.83m, which still stands, ultimately finishing at fifth place. At fourth was Australia's Bronwyn Thompson and behind Anju at sixth was Britain's Jade Johnson
All three Russians who won medals in the event - Tatyana Lebedeva, Irina Meleshina and Tatyana Kotova - have since failed drugs tests, prompting Anju, Thompson and Johnson to approach their respective national sports federations to support their cases. According to Bobby George, himself a former sportsman and coach, the trio intends on approaching the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) and the International Olympic Committee (IOC).
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