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Oklahoma City hosted the fourth round of American Ninja Warrior finals, which aired on Monday night. As with the Atlanta city finals, no women made it through the qualifying round.However, the region had some impressive women in its ranks. Sometimes all that keeps competitors from completing a course is a single tricky obstacle, and in Oklahoma City, that obstacle was the Log Runner.The third obstacle continued to give ninjas problems Monday night, taking out six competitors. It has also knocked out many of the women competing, including returning ninja and obstacle course racer Rose Wetzel.We were watching people go down, down, down, Wetzel said in a phone interview with espnW. No matter how great of an athlete someone is, if theres a ninja-killer, it doesnt discriminate.Wetzel is a fierce competitor. She is the second-ranked Spartan racer in her age group and has competed on two seasons of American Ninja Warrior. She also participated in the first episode of Team Ninja Warrior.Ive done so many sports activities, and theres something magical about American Ninja Warrior, Wetzel said.Wetzel is one of the female ninjas to get her start in the sport after the record-shattering sixth season in which three women completed the warped wall and Kacy Catanzaro finished the Dallas city finals course.Catanzaro is still the only woman to finish a city finals course. In each of her first two seasons, Wetzel competed in the same region as Catanzaro, which she says is important to her as a competitor.She has more pressure than anyone I know in that sport, Wetzel said. She continues to inspire me and I know she continues to inspire other people. Even if she were to never hit another buzzer for some crazy reason, she is a symbol of doing the impossible. That will never change. She broke that ceiling for us all and gave us permission to really go for it.Wetzel appreciates her athletic success. The rainbow tights she wears are a reflection of that. For many ninja competitors, their outfits are important to them, either so they can be identified easily or so they can raise awareness about a cause. Wetzel has loved ones that have struggled with various physical and mental ailments, so she chose to recognize them by wearing rainbow, which she says reflects all the colors of the ribbons for various causes.Im really grateful for this window of time, which I hope is a really long one, Wetzel said.Oklahoma City finals specs:Finishers: 2Female finishers: 0Women moving on: 0New or modified obstacles on second half of course: 1 out of 4The course:Were into city final episodes, where the first six obstacles remain the same as in each of the city qualifiers (except for a couple of tweaks). In city finals, the course builders added four obstacles on the second portion of the course (which well review below), bringing the total number of obstacles to 10.The first obstacle on the second part of each city finals course so far (i.e., the seventh obstacle overall) is the Salmon Ladder. Ninjas hang from a bar and must propel themselves upward to jump the bar up a series of rungs.Bungee Road returns from season seven as the eighth obstacle. Using their upper body, ninjas transition through a series of bungees before leaping onto a horizontal cylinder. From the cylinder, they swing to the next platform.The ninth obstacle is all new, and quite a doozy! The Window Hang requires ninjas to grip a ledge with only their fingers on either side of a window. They must maneuver between the five windows by reaching or doing a lache, or jump between them.The Invisible Ladder returns as the 10th obstacle. So far, thats been the case on each city finals course. Ninjas grab rings suspended from a hole in a platform and pull. When their movement stops, the ring catches their weight so that it looks like they are pulling themselves up a ladder, through the hole at the top of the finishing platform.Looking forward:After a two-week hiatus, our next ninja fix will be from Philadelphia. The Philly city finals promise to not disappoint, with four women getting their opportunity to test the course. Thats the most women to ever run a finals course in one city. Someones gotta make it to Vegas, right? Vapormax Flyknit 2 Blanche . Louis Blues teammates who would also be participating in the Olympics, Alex Pietrangelo felt right at home, no different in some ways to the travel experience of any old road trip – save for the length of the journey, that is. 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The National Anti-Doping Agencys disciplinary panel that heard wrestler Narsingh Yadavs appeal against his positive dope test is yet to make up its mind on the matter. It is learnt that during Thursdays hearing, NADAs counsel sought evidence of sabotage. The agency is now likely to announce its decision on Saturday.Reacting to NADAs insistence on proof of sabotage, a senior Wrestling Federation of India official said, Its not for Narsingh or the federation to gather evidence in the matter. An FIR has already been lodged and the investigating authorities will look into the issue.NADAs lawyer Gaurang Kanth told reporters: The argument put forth by NADA is that hes not eligible for remission which he has been asking for because he has failed to establish that he did not commit any fault or negligence. And since he has not been able to establish how the banned substance had entered his body, we argued that he should be given punishment.Kanth said Narsingh did not produce the relevant circumstantial evidence that there could have been sabotage. They filed an affidavit that his drinks or water was spiked but they did not produce the evidence to prove it to satisfy NADA or WADA code, he said.Kanth added: We argued that the requirements of due diligence and care which was needed to escape from punisshment was not provided as to satisfy the WADA code.dddddddddddd So we said he should be given punishment as appropriate this panel thinks fit. We said as an international athlete he should have taken due care about his food and drinks. But from what he had produced before the panel there was nothing to prove due care on his part.Narsingh had tested positive for banned substance methadienone during a test conducted on June 25. Late on Tuesday, Parveen Rana was named as his replacement in the 74kg freestyle category so India wouldnt have to forfeit its quota place at Rio.During Wednesdays hearing, 26 year-old Narsingh and his lawyers, led by Vidushpat Singhania, submitted a 600-page affidavit to the three-member NADA panel, maintaining that the wrestler should be offered the benefit of doubt since the positive dope test was a result of sabotage. They insisted that it was an unintentional case of doping -- done without the wrestlers knowledge.Just ahead of the hearing on Wednesday, Narsinghs second dope test conducted on July 5 too had returned positive.At the 2012 London Olympics, Narsingh had lost his opening bout against Canadas Matt Gentry.(With agency inputs) ' ' ' |
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