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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">It may have seemed like a good idea at the time but Mahiedine Mekhissi-Benabbad’s bizarre celebration in the home straight of the men’s 3,000m steeeplechase at the European championships was to cost him dear.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Approaching the final barrier, the Frenchman had the race and gold medal in the bag, having a enough time in hand to showboat by stripping off his running vest before putting it into his mouth and waving to the crowd.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Fans in the Letzigrund Stadium in Zurich jeered as he crossed the finishing line clear of his teammate Yoann Kowal in eight minutes 25.30 seconds — his third straight victory in the event at the championships after 2010 and 2012.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The 29-year-old had the presence of mind to put his top back after the finish, but the damage was done.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">He was initially shown a yellow card as a warning by an official, but an appeal by Spain on behalf of fourth placed athlete Angel Mullera led to his disqualification.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">His French team lodged a counter-protest but that was rejected, with Mekhissi-Benabbad disqualified under IAAF competition rules 143.1, 143.7.<br />Mullera was promoted to the bronze as result of the ruling.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“I find that the protest lodged by the Spaniards is anti fair-play,” Ghani Yalouzsa, the technical director of the French athletics federation, was quoted by AFP.<br />But the double Olympic silver medalist is no stranger to controversy. After winning his 2012 Euro gold in Helsinki he was criticized for shoving a mascot who offered him a gift.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The year before, Mekhissi-Benabbad was involved in a punch-up with French teammate Mehdi Baala at the 2011 Monaco Diamond League meeting, trading blows while they were still on the track and earning a five-month suspension from their federation.</span></div>
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| credits: cnn.com It may have seemed like a good idea at the time but Mahiedine Mekhissi-Benabbad’s bizarre celebration in the h...

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