Scottish referees - games to go ahead despite referee strike

Scottish games to go ahead despite referee strike
25 November 2010 19:02

GLASGOW (AFP) – All Scottish Premier League matches scheduled for this weekend will go ahead despite a planned strike by leading Scottish referees after the Scottish Football Association (SFA) reached agreement with “several European national associations”, the governing body said Thursday.

“The Scottish FA can confirm agreement has been reached with several European National Associations to ensure matches in the Clydesdale Bank Premier League and the Alba Cup final will be covered this weekend,” the SFA statement said.

It added: “Negotiations are continuing with other national associations to help ensure that some, if not all, matches in the Scottish Football League go ahead as normal.

“Clubs will be informed by 3pm today (1500GMT Thursday) whether their matches will go ahead or not in light of the Scottish Category One referees electing to persist with their withdrawal of labour.”

SFA chief executive Stewart Regan told BBC Reporting Scotland: “I’m delighted with the team of administrators who have worked tirelessly to speak to a number of associations across Europe.”

Regan added: “These are FIFA listed officials or category one referees from their own countries. So they are proper referees.

“Fans will have no worries that they are getting top officials to referee the games at the weekend.”

Scotland’s top or category one referees have chosen to strike in protest at what they say is the “intolerable pressure” placed on their personal and professional lives as a result of the fall-out from some of their recent on-field decisions.

A statement issued earlier Thursday by the referees said: “The incessant and adverse nature of recent comments on referees had placed intolerable pressures on personal and professional lives and that statements questioning honesty and integrity aimed across refereeing in general had led to an unprecedented level of abuse and genuine concerns for safety and for the ability to carry out normal family and business commitments.

“Last (Wednesday) night, all category one referees ratified their original decision (to strike this weekend).

However, their statement added: “After this weekend, the referees will return to the field and will continue dialogue with the governing body to develop well-thought through and meaningful measures in an environment of mutual respect.”

The season in Scotland so far has witnessed several high-profile refereeing controversies, notably involving Dougie McDonald’s handling of Celtic’s 2-1 win over Dundee United last month — during which he awarded Celtic what looked like a deserved penalty before overturning the decision after consulting a linesman.

McDonald was warned by the SFA referees’ committee over his failure to give an accurate report of the circumstances surrounding his rescinding of the Celtic penalty.

Referee Willie Collum meanwhile received threatening phone calls after awarding Rangers a dubious penalty during their 3-1 victory at Celtic Park.

Hoops chairman John Reid said last Thursday that McDonald should quit or be removed by the SFA after he admitted misleading Celtic manager Neil Lennon over that decision.

The SFA tried to avert a walkout by offering to ban all club officials from commenting on referees but, despite talks on Wednesday, this was not enough to prevent the strike going ahead.
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Pike River mine grief

Around the country today New Zealanders showed their support and honoured the 29 men who are presumed dead inside the Pike River mine.

On a day when words were hard to find, Dunedin spoke through its Cathedral bells - one toll for every life lost.

In Christchurch, the Cathedral was also a place to express sympathy.

At parliament, MP Te Ururoa Flavell expressed his grief in song, while other politicians queued up to sign a public condolence register.

Elsewhere around the capital, the West Coast's fallen sons were remembered at government buildings and embassies, where flags were flown at half mast.

In Auckland many teachers allowed students to spend time writing emails of support which will be sent to Greymouth schools.

Hourly prayer services provided a place of quiet contemplation for many in Auckland as NZ's biggest city held out a hand to its West Coast brothers.

"We are all sons and daughters of Greymouth today, no matter where we are in the country," said Auckland Mayor Len Brown.

A man who lost six students and a teacher in the Tongariro canyoning disaster in 2008, had words of advice.

"Closure does not come for a very, very long time and if they don't effect the recovery of bodies, that closure may never come," said Elim Christian College principal Murray Burton.

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Australia vs England Cricket Live Score

Australia vs England Live Score: Australia is facing up England in the first Test of Ashes 2010. Australia vs England (Aus vs Eng) Live match was kicked-off on Thursday.

Latest Score: 245/8 (72.4 Ovs)

The first Test of Ashes 2010 was started on Thursday between Australia and England at Brisbane Cricket Ground, Brisbane. England won the toss and elected to bat. But, England lost their early wicket in the form of their captain, Andrew Strauss, who could not score even single run.

Australian bowlers succeeded in picking early wickets of England and collapsed England’s top order batsmen. Australian bowler, Peter Siddle took two wickets followed by Ben Hilfenhaus and Shane Watson took one wicket each.

England batsmen, Andrew Strauss (0), Jonathan Trott (29), Kevin Pietersen (43) and Paul Collingwood (4) have all lost their wickets. Alastair Cook (67) and Ian Bell (39) are in the crease.
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Gilliam Mckieth Faint

I'm A Celebrity:

Stacey Solomon in tears

as she confronts

Gillian McKeith over

her 'fainting'

(See video -bottom of article)

By Emily Sheridan

Her 'fainting' and poor performance in Bushtucker Trials have angered her starving I'm A Celebrity campmates.

But today, Gillian McKeith turned on one of her few allies, Stacey Solomon and left her in tears after the X Factor singer suggested the nutritionist should quit the jungle due to her many phobias.

The Essex single mum, 21, was shocked by Gillian's defensive replies when she tried to suggest her health was more important than her salary from the show.

Clash: Gillian McKeith hit back when Stacey Solomon suggested she should leave I'm A Celebrity due to her many phobias

Speaking to 'incarcerated' Gillian through the bars of the jungle gym, she said: 'You are on telly and you are fainting, you’re fainting in front of your children, no amount of money is worth that.

'If you’re so afraid and have so many phobias and are ill over it, you should go. There’s nothing keeping you here. You said it’s unbearable.'

McKeith insisted she would be 'stupid' to leave after putting up with 8-10 days already.

'No amount of money is worth that': Stacey suggested Gillian's so-called health problems in the jungle weren't worth her salary

The 51-year-old said: 'I have a television career and if I walk out on my contract I will not work in television again. That’s the way it works.'

This Morning presenter Alison Hammond disagreed: 'That’s not true Gillian, after what you’ve been through you’ll work for the rest of your life, I’m telling you now.'

 

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When Stacey said: 'Gillian, ever since you’ve been here you’ve said that you don’t want to face your fears...'

Gillian hit back: 'You’re the classic person who doesn’t understand what a fear is versus a phobia. You don’t understand phobia, it’s like taking a person who can’t swim and throwing them in 10 feet of water and saying “off you go, see if you can swim".'

'Just go back over there': Gillian told Stacey she had no understanding of phobias

However, Stacey stood her ground, replying: 'No, because that’s a chance of death. Honestly Gill, if your phobia is that intense and that bad and you’re having to get up and deal with it everyday. It’s hard for us to hear it as well.'

Gillian retorted: 'Then don’t listen... just go back over there,' prompting a visibly upset Stacey to walk away.

Ms McKeith feels so isolated from the other contestants due to her phobias that she wants to talk with former contestant Katie Price once leaving Australia.

She said: 'There’s only one person I would like to talk to when I get out of here and that’s Katie Price, because she’s the only person who understands.'

Gillian added: 'She on the other hand managed to do much, much better than I did.  She’s probably the only person that would understand how I feel right now.'

Discussing the argument with Linford Christie, Stacey said: 'It’s my fault, I shouldn’t say anything, it’s none of my business, I don’t understand.'

But the Olympian stuck by her: 'No you have a right, she’s not sick. You’re an honest person so you told her, don’t let it upset you.'

Shoulder to cry on: Linford Christie comforted Stacey, telling her Gillian 'is not sick'

Later on, the two women made peace when Gilliam lamented about how hard she was having it.

However, Stacey didn't let her off too easily, pointing out everyone in camp was going through the same hardships.

Gillian attempted to explain herself: 'You kept talking and talking and I thought "oh my God, I can’t listen to this anymore I’m too…" I haven’t slept all night.'

But Stacey replied: 'We’re all not sleeping, all eating the same, we’re all going to these Trial things.  We’re all doing it... We’re all going through the same experience.  I can’t fully understand everyday having a Trial, it must be the worst.'

Hug and make-up: Gillian later took Stacey away from camp so they could make peace

After the row, Gillian managed to overcome her fears to achieve five stars in her seventh Bushtucker Trial - Fisherman's Fiend.

She pre-empted fellow trial participant Dom Joly: 'I’m hopeless. I feel like I’m going to let you down.'

He gave his campmates his strategy before going to the trial: 'I’m going to be totally kind until she does the usual wussy stuff and then I’m like what are you doing on this show.'

Fisherman's Fiend: Gillian and Dom entered a giant lobsterpot as it was lowered into the water, with each compartment containing six boxes of stars - mixed with various aquatic creatures

When asked by Britt Ekland what he'll do if she faints again, Dom joked: 'If she does I’ll kick her.'

The Fisherman's Fiend trial saw Dom and Gillian in separate sections of a giant lobsterpot lowered into the water, with each compartment containing six boxes of stars - mixed with various aquatic creatures.

During the trial, Ant and Dec were left silent as Dom ended up providing the reassurance Gillian needed.

Calm down: Dom questioned why Gillian was screaming

A personal record: Gillian had to put her head under water to collect a star from an underwater box - the first time she claimed she had ever done so

He made her look foolish at the beginning of the task when she started screaming at the sight of a box, saying: 'Why are you screaming. It's a box.'

Gillian then informed him she was also water-phobic, adding it to her long list of phobias, she couldn't swim and have never put her head under water in her life.

After managing to conquer one her many fears and going underwater, Gillian collected five stars and was soon followed by Dom, who got all six, meaning 11 meals for camp.

Triumphant: Dom told the other contestants about Gillian after finishing the trial, saying: 'There was a huge lobster cage and it was going down and suddenly she went mental'

Relaxed: Dom successfully picked up all six stars - later revealing he didn't find it too difficult because he was an avid scuba diver

Returning triumphant to camp, Dom relayed Gillian's progress to the contestants: 'There was a huge lobster cage and it was going down and suddenly she went mental. She was screaming and I was like what are you doing.

'And then she calmed down and got one and then I said all you need is one more and she got another one and she got in the zone and got five.'

Gillian then got to miss out on the latest Kangaroo Court challenge, which saw campmates fighting for immunity for the first show elimination.

Now who's phobic: Stacey couldn't bring herself to put her hand in a jar of creepy crawlies during the Kangaroo Court challenge and watched Jenny Eclair in amazement

After each celebrity was told they would have to put their hand to the bottom of a jar of creepie crawlies, pull out a tiger worm and then feed it through a hole onto the scales, Stacey and Dom ended up refusing.

Both admitted being scared of spiders and couldn't bring themselves to touch the huge spiders in the jars, so were thrown in the jail alongside Gillian, Shaun Ryder, Sheryl Gascoyne and Lembit Opik.

This prison lark's fun: Stacey shares a joke with Shaun Ryder in the jungle jail

Comfy: Dom remarked the beds in jail were better than the ones in camp

But after a week at camp, it wasn't only Gillian getting on everyone's nerves - comedienne Jenny Eclair found she needed some time out from camp after getting frustrated with Kayla Collins' trying to tell her what to do while cooking dinner.

And Jenny wasn’t the only contestant to be angered by Kayla’s kitchen habits, as Nigel, Britt and Aggro all commented over the American’s laziness.

They feel that Kayla hasn’t been pulling her weight and Jenny admitted: ‘I’m getting very close to snapping at a certain girl, it’s one person who is a lazy, lazy girl and it’s making me furious.

‘This is when I come out at my worst, I’m not jealous of young people, we’ve all been there, but not to have any self-awareness…’

Despite Kayla stepping in to the chop the vegetables, she managed to infuriate Jenny further by telling the comedienne what to do.

Food row: Jenny Eclair became infuriated by Kayla's 'laziness' and stormed off into the jungle to calm down

Kitchen duties: Kayla did start chopping vegetables to help out but then began to tell Jenny Eclair what to do, which angered ther 50-year-old even further

Jenny quickly snapped that she was a 50-year-old woman, who was quite capable of doing the job, before storming off into the jungle to calm down.

She then told the Bush Telegraph: ‘I have no respect for what you [Kayla] do, I think you are an idiotic girl.

‘You know what, I’ve just been running around like a blue ar***d fly.’

The end of the show saw Stacey and Aggro Santos finding out they would be taking part in the task - which will be screened on Thursday instead of Wednesday because of the UEFA Champions League football match.

Gillian, Britt Ekland and Alison were excluded on medical grounds.

Cool down: Sheryl Gascoyne showers in a fuchsia swimsuit

Bikini babe: Kayla Collins showed off her Playmate figure in another bikini from her own collection

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Ireland set for nervy two weeks until budget vote

 

Irish Taoiseach Brian Cowen reacts as he speaks to the media in Government Buildings Dublin November 21, 2010.

Credit: Reuters/Cathal McNaughton

By Jodie Ginsberg and Carmel Crimmins

DUBLIN | Mon Nov 22, 2010 8:23pm EST

DUBLIN (Reuters) - Ireland begins two nervous weeks of political maneuvering on Tuesday as the government dares the opposition to block an austerity budget on which a multi-billion euro EU/IMF bailout is riding.

Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen defied mounting pressure to quit on Monday, saying he would stay in office until parliament passed the budget, then call an early election.

Public anger at his handling of Ireland's economic and banking crisis has only grown since he announced the bailout, and his chances of passing the budget fell dramatically when two independent members of parliament said they were likely to withhold their support.

But Cowen said the national interest required that he press on to unveil a promised four-year austerity package on Wednesday, and a 2011 budget on December 7.

The government is expected to announce that it will cut the minimum wage, slash social welfare spending, reduce the number of public employees and add a new property tax and higher income taxes in a package intended to slash 6 billion euros off next year's budget, and 15 billion off the annual budget by 2014.

Trade unions have warned that the austerity plan could provoke civil unrest: a student demonstration over planned fee increases turned violent this month, and unions have organized a march to protest at the planned measures on November 27 in Dublin.

"DUTY TO BACK BUDGET

"We have entered into discussions with European partners on the basis that we are going to implement a budget that will have a 6 billion euro adjustment," Cowen told a news conference after emergency talks with his cabinet.

"We believe that there's a clear duty on all members of Dail Eireann (parliament) to facilitate the passage of these measures in the uniquely serious circumstances in which we find ourselves."

As EU and IMF negotiators thrash out details of the rescue package, Theresa Reidy, politics lecturer at University College Cork, said Cowen's Fianna Fail party seemed to be planning to cajole the opposition into abstaining on the budget.

"What we will see in the next fortnight is growing pressure on the opposition parties for the sake of political stability to abstain on the major votes," she said.

Both the main opposition parties, Fine Gael and Labour, who are likely to come to power in a coalition after next year's election, had demanded that an election take place before the budget, and seemed unlikely to fall in line soon, if at all.

"The taoiseach (prime minister) thinks he has a majority so let him go ahead and exercise his majority," said Fine Gael finance spokesman Michael Noonan.

"Do you seriously think he is looking for our support? I don't think so. I have no idea what's going to be in the budget ... There is a (Fine Gael) front bench meeting tomorrow and we will consider whether we will put down a vote of no confidence."

Analysts say most Irish people, who have endured two years of austerity and recession and now face four more years of cuts on foreign lenders' terms, would prefer an immediate election.

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Cambodia stampede kills at least 345

By Prak Chan Thul

PHNOM PENH | Tue Nov 23, 2010 2:11am EST

PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - A stampede on a bridge in Cambodia's capital killed at least 345 people when thousands panicked, pinning and trampling revelers on the last day of a festival marking the end of the rainy season.

The stampede began late on Monday on a small bridge lined with lights connecting Phnom Penh to an island where a crowd of mostly young people had gathered to celebrate the water festival and watch a concert.

Survivors said panic set in when shouts went up that several people had been electrocuted. Police said some people also shouted that the bridge was about to collapse as thousands of people were heading back to the city center.

The victims suffocated or were trampled and some survivors said they were wedged into the crowd of living and dead for hours. Police sprayed water so survivors could drink, some said.

"People were shouting that someone had been electrocuted, to run back," Touch Loch, 18, told Reuters. "I fell and people stepped on me until I passed out. When I woke I was here in hospital."

"People were crying for their fathers and mothers."

State television said at least 240 of the dead were women.

Khon Sros, 19, said from her hospital bed some people had leapt off the bridge to escape but she had been pinned in the crowd from her waist down until police pulled her out.

"One man died near me. He was weak and didn't have enough air."

Touch Theara, 38, said she had been stuck in the crowd for three hours: "I thought I was dead ... Police sprayed water at us. We were just opening our mouths to drink."

Prime Minister Hun Sen apologized for the disaster in which at least 329 people were hurt. He ordered an investigation as television footage showed relatives weeping over the bodies of the dead piled one on top of the other.

"This is the biggest tragedy in more than 31 years after the Pol Pot regime," he said, referring to the Khmer Rouge, whose agrarian revolution from 1975-1979 killed an estimated 1.7 million people in Cambodia under the command of Pol Pot.

He declared Thursday a day of mourning.

ROWS OF DEAD

Emergency crews carried lifeless bodies and laid them out in rows for identification.

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North Korea artillery

(Reuters) - North Korea on Tuesday fired dozens of artillery shells at a South Korean island, setting buildings on fire and prompting a return of fire by the South, Seoul's military and media reports said.

A witness said residents of the island of Yeonpyeong, off the west coast of the peninsula near a disputed maritime border, had been evacuated.

Yonhap news agency said four South Korean soldiers had been wounded in the shelling, the biggest attack in years.

YTN television quoted a witness as saying 60 to 70 houses were on fire after the shelling and TV footage showed plumes of smoke coming from the island. It said a South Korean fighter jet had been deployed to the west coast after the shelling.

"Houses and mountains are on fire and people are evacuating. You can't see very well because of plumes of smoke," a witness on the island told YTN.

"People are frightened to death and shelling continues as we speak," the witness said.

News of the exchange of fire sent the won tumbling in offshore markets with the 1-month won down in NDF trading.

The impact was felt internationally, with U.S. 10-year Treasury futures rising and the Japanese yen falling.

South Korea's military confirmed the exchange of firing, without providing more details.

The attack comes just as a U.S. envoy is traveling to the region after revelations that the North is moving ahead with uranium enrichment, a possible second path to manufacture material for atomic weapons.

(Reporting by Seoul bureau; Writing by Jonathan Thatcher; Editing by John Chalmers)

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Jet Slides Off Runway in Seattle

Jet Slides Off Runway in Snow-Covered Seattle

(Nov. 22) -- It's not the start to the holiday travel season that one might have hoped for.

This afternoon, a 747 cargo jet operated by Dynasty Air/Ocean Freight Co. slid off the runway at Seattle's Sea-Tac Airport during the city's first snowfall of the year, according to the Federal Aviation Administration. The pilots on Flight 5321 apparently lost control of the jet upon landing, the Seattle Times reported. So far, there are no reports of any casualties.

All incoming flights have been put on hold because of ice, KING 5 News reported.

The storm, which has already dropped more than 2 inches on Seattle and sent temperatures plummeting, comes as many residents prepared to travel for the Thanksgiving holiday. But the area's major highways were turned into veritable parking lots as dozens of accidents snarled traffic on I-5 and I-405, two of the biggest highways. Factoring in the wind chill, the temperature today felt as though it was zero degrees.

Another 2 to 5 inches of snow is expected tonight, KOMO News reported.
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Jurors convict immigrant of killing Chandra Levy

GUILTY: Jurors convict immigrant of killing Chandra Levy

By Michael Doyle
mdoyle@mcclatchydc.com

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WASHINGTON — A Washington, D.C. jury on Monday convicted Salvadoran immigrant Ingmar Guandique of killing former Modesto resident Chandra Levy in 2001.

The jury of three men and nine women deliberated for a little more than three days before announcing their verdict, which caps one of the nation's longest-running and most relentlessly chronicled murder mysteries.

Speaking outside the courthouse, Levy’s mother said she’ll never be free from the pain of losing her daughter.

“I have a lifetime sentence of a lost limb missing from our family tree,” Susan Levy said after the hearing. “It’s a lifetime of a broken heart.”

The two first-degree felony murder convictions subjects Guandique to a potential sentence of 30 years to life in prison, as Washington, D.C. does not have the death penalty.

Guandique's sentencing will come later, following additional court proceedings. The fearsomely tattooed 29-year-old is already serving a prison sentence for attacking two other women in Washington's Rock Creek Park.

Rock Creek Park is where, jurors agreed, Guandique killed Levy on May 1, 2001 during an attempted robbery. Two women who survived their own 2001 attacks by Guandique helped convict him, with their compelling testimony during the trial that began Oct. 25.

"He grabbed me from behind and held a knife to my face," recounted Christy Wiegand, now a 35-year-old attorney with two children. "He brutally attacked me, and dragged me to an isolated area."

Guandique's other known surviving victim, Halle Shilling, likewise recalled how she "felt an incredible thud" when Guandique jumped her from behind while she was jogging. Shilling, now a mother of three living in Southern California, and Wiegand were both able to fight Guandique off.

Wiegand and Shilling were both also considerably bigger than the 24-year-old Levy.

In addition to the testimony by Wiegand and Shilling, prosecutors benefited from the firmly spoken recollections of prison inmate Armando Morales. A former gang member, who is still serving time on drug charges, Morales testified that Guandique confessed to him in 2006 that he had killed Levy.

"He told me he spotted her over there at the park," recalled Morales, who shared a prison cell with Guandique for six weeks. "She was alone, and she had on one of those waist pouches. He decided to rob her. He said he hid in the bushes … he ran up behind her and grabbed her from behind. He said he dragged her into the bushes.

"He said by the time he had dragged her into the bushes, she had stopped struggling," Morales added. "He said he never meant to kill her."

Susan Levy attended most of the trial. She was present Monday morning when the verdict was read.

Levy had finished graduate studies and a federal Bureau of Prisons internship when she disappeared. She was planning to take a May 5 Amtrak train back home to California's San Joaquin Valley, trial testimony revealed.

The 10 days of testimonyl shed considerable light on Levy's life and times. Witnesses told of Levy's physical fitness habits, the color of her clothing and the traces of her final Internet browsing that ended shortly before 1 p.m. on May 1, 2001.

Most intimately, Levy's semen-spotted underwear examined by the FBI confirmed that she had had a sexual relationship with then-California congressman Gary Condit. Some of Levy's final Internet searches focused on Condit and his family members, according to trial testimony.

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Asiad - Track Events - India Dominate

India dominate Asiad track events

India's Preeja Sreedharan won the 10,000m event

India gained three gold medals on the ninth day of competition at the 2010 Asian Games in China's Guangzhou city.

Long distance runner Preeja Sreedharan and steeple chaser Sudha Singh picked up golds on a day when India dominated track events.

And shooter Ronjan Sodhi picked up the first gold for India's shooting team by winning the men's double trap event.

With 33 medals, including five golds, India stood eighth in the medals table on Sunday.

Preeja Sreedharan clinched the gold in the women's 10,000m event with a burst of pace ahead of teammate Kavita Raut and Bahrain's Shitaya Habtegebrel.

Sreedharan came home in a time of 31:50:28.

"My coach said if I ran my own pace I would definitely get gold," she said. "I ran my own style and my own pace and I won. I didn't think about the other competitors."

Sudha Singh won the steeplechase holding off China's Jin Yuan and Japan's Minori Hayakari.

"I'm very excited because in the Commonwealth Games I came fifth and my burning desire was to improve my time and do better," she said.

India won six more medals on Sunday.

Kavita Raut picked up a silver in the women's 10,000m run, while star tennis player Sania Mirza and wrestlers, Ravinder Singh and Sunil Kumar Rana, claimed individual bronze medals.

Shooter Sodhi teamed up with Asher Noria and Vikram Bhatnagar to win the bronze in the double trap event, while the women's archery team comprising Dola Banerjee, Deepika Kumari and Rimil Buriuly also won a bronze.

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