:Three months after the Olympics in 2004, the International Federation of Gymnastics to review the final ring. The winner was the blue (bronze), only the eighth greek Tampakos instead rewarded with the highest score. "It is a moral satisfaction "
---------- Prato, 21 January 2009 - "THREE MONTHS after the end rings to the Athens 2004, the International Federation submitted to a committee of judges from around the world final of the movies. The result was that the winner of the greek gold medal came eighth . The Japanese came in the third quarter passed the spot, the Bulgarian silver medal was second and the winner was me. "
Five years after the 'big mockery' of Athens 2004 Jury Chechi reveals a striking background of the end-to-ring scandal: the victory of gymnast Dimosthenis Tampakos home, first with 9862, contestatissima a series of errors committed during the exercise is sensationally been denied by the court 'posthumous' because a few months after the committee entrusted by the International Federation of the task to make clear on the end of controversy. (続く)
"The committee has worked on movies with a ralenty and replay and not direct the jury as the Olympic - Chechi argues - but it is the revision of the sensational trial: the greek changed from the last winner to finish. E ' demonstrating that the gold medal was not deserved. I said from the outset, that deserved to win the Bulgarian Jordan Jovtchev".
Instead, the revised classification and correct reads: third Japanese Hiroyuki Tomita (who took the race in 9800), according to the Bulgarian (9850) and first Chechi (which the jury was rated by 9812).
"Thank you, is a moral satisfaction, but everything ends in gymnastics at the time in which the vote on tebellone. There are tools to change the decisions and the rule is that the verdict was the face," says Chechi, slightly struggling because claudicante with the aftermath of a speech to the ligaments of the knee which has undergone a month ago.
'It is the curse that strikes me every eight years - says smiling -. In 1992 the knee injury m'impedì to participate in the Barcelona Olympics in 2000 than in Sydney. Now, in 2008 it was again on time. It Indeed - concludes joking - I did not take part in the Olympics in Beijing. "
The gold medal in Atlanta in 1996, after withdrawing from the Athens 2004 announces its intention to open a farm Ripa Transone in the province of Ascoli Piceno and reveals a different background. "I have courted to participate all'Isola of celebrities, then at the farm, then a Dancing with the Stars. With all due respect for those who go there, I said no. The money was never the primary objective of my life" . (記事本文終わり。補足が続く。)
Injuries have not stopped the triumphs of the "Lord of the Rings" NATO in Prato on 11 October 1969, Jury Chechi 1989 to 1995 has won 6 consecutive titles in Italy, the Mediterranean Games, the Universiade, 4 European titles and world titles 5 . As a result of these triumphs was nicknamed "The Lord of the Rings." On the eve of the Olympics in Barcelona, where he was the big favorite, has broken the Achilles tendon of a leg. The appointment with the gold to the Olympic rings is only postponed: in Atlanta in 1996 Chechi accomplishes its mission. New accident in 2000 and extraordinary return to Athens in 2004, almost 35 years, by winning the bronze medal.
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It would have gone to Juri Chechi (bronze on that) the Olympic gold in Athens in 2004 with the rings and not the greek Dimosthenis Tampakos. This is the opinion of a neutral panel appointed by the International Gymnastics Federation, three months after the Olympics, to review the films of some races in the final verdicts had given rise to doubts. To reveal, as published today by the Nation, the same sample tuscan. "For me it is a great satisfaction, morally. But what is the verdict of the jury Olympic mean any action is impossible," comments Chechi. According to the panel neutral "Tampakos actually would have been absent from the podium, with the backing of blue silver confirmed in the Bulgarian Jovtchev and bronze instead for the Japanese athlete Hiroyuki Tomita, who came fourth.
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:Juri Chechi's intention to open a farm Ripatransone. The plurimedagliato gymnast, after withdrawing from the bronze in Athens in 2004, has refused requests for participation in reality show
------ Ascoli Piceno, 21 January 2009 - from 'Lord of the Rings' to the' lord of cooking '. As he told the nation, the plurimedagliato gymnast Yuri Chechi, plans to open a farm in the province of Ascoli Piceno, a Ripatransone. Chechi, after withdrawing from the Athens 2004, is currently struggling with rehabilitation a month ago it was subjected to an intervention at the ligaments of the knee. (続く)
In the meantime, says that he has refused requests for participation in reality. In Athens 2004, the athlete won bronze in the Olympic rings, but according to a panel appointed by the International Gymnastics Federation, three months after the Olympics, to review the films of some races, the gold would have gone just the athlete Italian, not to the greek Dimosthenis Tampakos. To reveal, as published today by the nation, is the same Jury Chechi commenting: "For me it is a great satisfaction, morally. But what is the verdict of the jury Olympic mean any action is impossible."
Chechi said that the Federation appointed a "neutral panel" to review some of the gymnastics competitions in the final verdicts had given rise to doubts. Among these is the final of the rings, which had attracted so much clamor for the victory given to gymnast at home. According to the panel neutral "Tampakos actually would have been absent from the podium, silver confirmed for the Bulgarian Jovtchev, gold and bronze in Chechi instead for the Japanese athlete Hiroyuki Tomita came fourth.