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Maxim Tchoudov, who retired dall''attivit & agrave; racing last winter, granted un''intervista portal R-Sport that, nearly six years later, returns to the famous world champion pursuit of Pyeongchang 2009, which, he said, he and Russia were deprived of a sacred medal 'gold (which is actually & agrave; it was not so sacrosanct).
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The 'athlete of Ufa celebrates today its 32 & deg; birthday and ended his career with four victories in the World Cup, including a world championship gold (the sprint & Öland; stersund 2008) with a further three individual silver medals at the World Championships and several relay.
Just the 'last of the three silver & egrave; arrived in the race, "objected" to which we have referred Tchoudov saying "all''epoca we Russians could not take back what was up there, if a person has violated the rules must be punished." & nbsp;
Probably many of you are passionate about biathlon only recently, so & egrave; well take a short history lesson.
The FATTIIl February 15, 2009 will disput & ograve; the 'pursuit of the World Pyeongchang. Ole Einar Bj & ø rndalen domin & ograve; winning the race with a lead of 42 "over Tchoudov and 53" Alexander Os. However, after the end of the competition, it was discovered & igrave; that Bj & ø rndalen and 10 other athletes had the wrong road tains the test passing over a bridge instead of & eacute; around it.
See 11 of the 58 starters make the same mistake and think about how the 'year before Magdalena Neuner had stumbled on the same problem at the same point, Prompt Make & igrave; as the reports were & nbsp; chaotic and there were obvious deficiencies in the husband by dell''organizzazione.
In any case, Bj & ø rndalen effettu & ograve; a cut path and Russia present & ograve; appeal. The jury decided to penalize 1 minute all the athletes involved, therefore Bj & ø rndalen slipped & ograve; from first to third place with Tchoudov gold.
Part & igrave; immediate counter-appeal signed by Norway, Germany, Ukraine, Slovenia, Poland, France and Austria which decided a sort of court of 'appeals made by Anders Besseberg, Alexander Tikhonov, Ivor Lehotan, Uwe M & uuml; ssiggang and Borut Nunar.
The 'German broadcaster ZDF, thanks to its director custom, he had pictures of the cutting path and Demo & ograve; as the advantage gained was minimal and did not affected in any way the 'outcome of the competition.
The aforementioned "court of 'appeals' majority vot & ograve; to clear the faults and restore 'order' arrival original.
Followed on & igrave; Hell in Russia, however all''epoca nell''occhio of the storm because of the positivity & agrave; all''Epo Ekaterina Iourieva, Albina Akhatova and Dmitry Yaroshenko. Tikhonov and Tchoudov asked the 'assignment dell''oro a tie, but the request of the Russian Federation was repeatedly rejected, even by the CAS in Lausanne, and ranking non & egrave; pi & ugrave; been changed.
This thing is clearly not Tchoudov & egrave; never gone down & ugrave ;, despite Bj & ø rndalen he did not get an appreciable advantage and finish it preceded by more than 40 ". However legends tell of a meeting not just friendly match between the two at the hotel a few hours after the end of the competition.
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