Medal to be returned;
NZPA-Reuter Padova, Italy The Italian, Giovanni Evangelist!, said he had decided to give back the controversial bronze long jump medal he won at the Rome world championships because of persistent allegations that the result was fixed. - “I have decided to give up this medal because it has lost all meaning for me,” Evangelisti, aged 26, said. Evangelisti’s September 5 jump has stirred controversy since November when Italian television computer and video projections suggested it was more than half a metre short of the official measurement of 8.38 metres. Evangelisti beat the American, Larry Myricks, to the bronze by just five centimetres.
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Press, 28 December 1987, Page 26
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