However, on 24 August, the Netherlands Antilles filed an appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport to reinstate Martina's medal, arguing that the American protest came after the 30-minute deadline for protests and appeals set by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), and also that they have their own video footage (not the official Olympic video footage) showing that Martina never left his lane.
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This would have been both a national record and the second-ever Olympic medal for the Netherlands Antilles after Jan Boersma's silver in the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul.
# Fastest topple of 30 metres of domino stones (4.21 sec) (the sprinter Churandy Martina ran with the dominoes and achieved the time of 3.81 sec for the same distance)
Although they could have added another silver to the collection, after the 200m final in Beijing, as Churandy Martina finished second, behind Usain Bolt and his record breaking performance.
Martina McBride | Martina Navratilova | Martina Franca | Martina Gedeck | Martina Arroyo | Martina Bergman-Österberg | Martina | Churandy Martina | Mia Martina | Martina Sorbara | Martina Cole | I Love You (Martina McBride song) | Pietro da Cortona, ''Saint Martina Refuses to Adore the Idols'', oil on canvas, 104 x 86 cm, Princeton University Art Museum | Martina Voss | Martina von Trapp | Martina Topley-Bird | Martina, Switzerland | Martina Pippal | Martina Colombari | Martina Anderson | Javier Martina |