NewsWhore
07-30-2007, 04:30 PM
The Dominican Republic has finished up in ninth place at the Rio 2007 Pan American Games, with a very respectable 29 medals of every color. Lin Ju won gold in Table Tennis and Heidy Rodriguez won gold in karate. Overall, cycling and bowling added their names to medal-winning sports for the DR at the Pan Am Games. Predictions, always conservative, called for 18 medals in these games, in which over 35 nations take part, and the 29-medal total is quite an achievement. Cyclist Wendy Cruz provided what was perhaps the biggest surprise on the positive side and Felix Sanchez's failure to win even a medal in his event was the biggest disappointment. Of course, the baseball team's disastrous performance will provide food for thought over the next four years. Sanchez regained some of his former splendor when he just narrowly missed getting the silver medal in the 4 x 400 relay.
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