Attorneys and NAACP leaders are calling for a high school track athlete’s gold medal to be reinstated after the California Interscholastic Federation stripped it from her because she celebrated by using a fire extinguisher on her shoes after a race – behavior that the organization told her was unsportsmanlike.

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