I caught wind of this earlier today written by the Houston Chronicle. Interesting request by the attorney for Nia Abdallah to have the Olympic Trials match with Diana Lopez investigated by congress. Thought is warranted a bit more press......nice nuggets in the comment section as well. I personally have not watched the video and can't seem to find it apparently because the USOC pulled it down off youtube.com. If anyone can produce the video please post a link in the comments section. Excerpts below......
Interesting to see where this might go.
Copyright 2008 Houston Chronicle
"2004 Olympic silver medalist Nia Abdallah said Sunday she was judged unfairly in her April 5 bout against Diana Lopez for a spot on the U.S. Olympic taekwondo team, and family members and supporters said Congress should investigate the matter.
Abdallah, 24, of Houston, lost to Lopez, 24, of Sugar Land, 1-0 in overtime at USA Taekwondo's Olympic trials last month in Des Moines, Iowa, to determine the federation's representative in the women's featherweight division at the Beijing Games.
Lopez's win enabled her to join her older brothers, two-time Olympic gold medalist Steven Lopez and Mark Lopez, as the first set of three siblings to compete in the same sport at the same Olympics for the United States since 1904."
NIA ABDALLAH WAS ROBBED...THE FIGHT IS NOT OVER. GO TO: WESUPPORTNIA.BLOGSPOT.COM
Posted by: jesse muhammad | August 01, 2008 at 07:36 PM
Nice post. Really I liked it.
Thanks
Posted by: Manchester United | March 23, 2009 at 04:25 AM
Must have been difficult for Diana to watch Nia Abdallah loose her round of 16 match
Posted by: Ahmed | October 16, 2009 at 12:27 PM