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Dr Devulapalli, who has campaigned for the party to change policy on trans people, said the Greens had made "a political move" to silence her and had found a "technicality" to expel her.

But that technicality didn’t dampen the spirits of Sovereignty’s trainer, Bill Mott, after the race.

Others, like an election law clause that prohibits candidates from lying during their campaigns, is an oft-abused technicality that would leave few politicians standing were it consistently enforced.

Chiles was also awarded her first individual Olympic medal, a bronze in the floor exercise, in Paris but it was taken away because of a technicality.

“But it’s a technicality when the only hospital you can have a baby at won’t help you.”