DAWES SCORES SILVER AFTER CONTROVERSIAL FINISH TO 4×400 RELAY

At the Rio Paralympics, and in her 6th games, Newcastle’s Christie Dawes will again return home with a medal, after a turbulent women’s 4 x 400m track Relay.

Our girls though were then disqualified, but after launching an appeal, they ended up with silver, after the second placed US team was disqualified.

Officials found that the US athlete had impeded the Australian’s in the final transition.