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Let's start with a basic precondition. In mathematics, 2 + 2 always makes 4, while the world of all days is decidedly more complex. Therefore, the addenda are not always what they seem and operations may give misleading results. However, by putting together the pieces of the puzzle emerged in recent days, it can be said that there are two highly names of eligible candidates to be the biathletes suspended yesterday dall''Ibu.
Friday 23 December 2016 5 minutes reading time
They would Olga Vilukhina and Iana Romanova. Let's see how we arrived at this conclusion.
Wednesday night on a Russian forum has published a list of alleged biathletes suspects mentioned in the McLaren relationship. The veracity of this document has not received official confirmation, but its reliability is not even yet been disproved.
The Excel file has three sheets. These biathletes (over 30) are contained in the first sheet (denominto "Master List Biathlon"). The third sheet (called "Scratches document") instead there is another list, including athletes of various sports.
Crossing the data reveals some coincidences. The biathletes reported in document Scratches are only two, in fact Vilukhina and Romanova. The first I mentioned twice and the second four.
In Master List Biathlon is known as the heading "Substance / Problem Found", two samples of Vilukhina and four Romanova are marked as "Scratched samples", or as tubes on which would have been recorded scratches.
No other biathlete appointed "Master List Biathlon" has a sample with this problem and in fact is not mentioned in "Scratched samples" sheet. Therefore it can be deduced as quest''ultima list contains the names of athletes whose samples are suspected of having been tampered with.
The "offending" Vilukhina samples were collected on 31 January and 6 February 2014. The four instead Romanova January 31, February 2 (two) and 21 February 2014. All therefore fall nell''arco time on which the IOC has jurisdiction.
IOC today announced that it has opened un''indagine on a total of 28 athletes, those on which samples will be evidence of tampering. The 'Ibu yesterday announced as the temporary suspension of the two biathletes has been decided following the decisions of the International Olympic Committee.
Therefore, by adding all the addenda, it is deduced that it is highly likely that the two are just hanging Vilukhina and Romanova. All this, of course, is based on the assumption that the document came out in Russia is authentic.
But it remains to understand what the consequences may lead the 'investigation of the IOC. It is one thing to talk about manipulation of the tubes, a different story is to prove beyond reasonable doubt that the athletes whose samples were tampered have actually taken banned substances.
In other words we are only in the early stages of un''inchiesta that is moving into uncharted territory and whose actual consequences will all be weighed.
For the record Vilukhina he won a 'silver medal in the sprint and was part of the relay, where he also competed Romanova, where Russia has got another silver.
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