The courtroom, packed with previously disqualified candidates, broke out in cheers at the decision.
On his last shot before being disqualified, Sluman holed out for eagle from 112 yards at No. 4, moving him to five under par.
Rouhani's candidacy appeared to be a long shot until several better-known reformist and moderate candidates were disqualified or dropped out, leaving him as the only moderate left among a slate of conservatives.
And two, were there overseas ballots that should be disqualified?" To find out, Mr. Aufhauser and Mr. Tompkins sent lawyers and campaign aides to election offices in all 67 counties.
Punk received a title rematch with The Rock at Elimination Chamber, with the added stipulation that if The Rock was disqualified or counted out, he would lose the title, but Rock pinned Punk to retain the championship.
Punk received a title rematch with Rock on February 17 at the Elimination Chamber event, with the stipulation that the Rock would lose the WWE Championship if he was disqualified or counted out, but Rock pinned Punk to retain the title.
Although the federation said that it concluded there had been no wrongdoing and that Sapphire was disqualified only out of concern for her welfare and to assure fair competition, the decision stung, particularly for Ward, who has spent much of his adult career trying to shake the shadow of his family's past.
He was awarded the 2011 gold in January 2012 when the Frenchman Grégory Baugé was disqualified for missing out-of-competition drugs tests; he received the rainbow jersey in this velodrome in February that year in a low-key ceremony where the maillot arc en ciel was a junior one dredged up by the UCI.
"It's as important or more important when people who consider themselves believers express criticism because they can't be as easily disqualified as people on the out and out, in the opposition," said Mr. Henken, the expert on Cuba's Internet.
During the campaign, 13 presidential aspirants were disqualified for not filling out their nomination forms properly.
