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The Court of Arbitration for Sport in Lausanne acquitted the violinist Thai and British citizen Vanessa Mae from & rsquo; accused of having qualified through results manipulated for the female giant Olympic Games in Sochi 2014. Therefore, the four-year suspension imposed by the FIS last November 11 They were canceled.
Friday 19 June 2015 5 minutes reading time
According to the results of four FIS giant played between 17 and 19 January 2014 in the resort & agrave; Slovenia's Krvavec had been manipulated. In those races Vanessa Vanakorn as & egrave; recognized by the International Federation of skiing (Vanakorn & egrave; the father's surname) was classified tenth, ninth, sixth and seventh earning FIS points to go to Sochi, where he & egrave; over sixty-seventh and last of the athletes arrive at the finish line, with more than 50 seconds behind the winner Tina Maze.
The FIS had then announced that those four races were organized at the request of the management of Vanakorn which last opportunity & agrave; for l & rsquo; artist, born in Singapore October 27, 1978, to qualify for the Games. But in July of & rsquo; last year the Slovenian federsci rivel & ograve; handling operations in those giants. From subsequent testimonies & egrave; It has been established that: the charts of two of these races c & rsquo; he was a competitor who had not played; a & rsquo; other competitor was ranked second in a race even though he was falling; at least one competitor was left out of the starting gate, which was then manually open from & rsquo; when the employee & rsquo; & agrave athlete was already; on the track; a & rsquo; but retired athlete with the best FIS points had participated with the & rsquo; sole purpose of lowering the penalty payment agrave; relating to postings of other competitors; the weather conditions were so & Igrave; bad that none of the races & egrave; It was regular and that any other race in Slovenia would be canceled; FIS rules against the two rounds were played on the same course; all & rsquo; incirca 23 competitors took part in the first two races but in the final results at least two teams did not participate; in the other two races were only eight at the start and only six were classified.
For all that rained disqualifications as a ban from competition FIS: four years Vanessa Mae Vanakorn two years with the referee Slovenian Borut Hrobat, year to year & rsquo; Italian delegate FIS Fabio De Cassan, the Slovenian head of chronometers Matiaz Goltez, the Slovenian court and Vlado Makuc & Outdoors; attendant starting Slovenian Uros Sinkovec. Now the TAS, which Vanessa has appealed, reversed the judgment at least for the disqualification of the violinist skier whose direct involvement in these manipulations of those events not & egrave; tried. So disqualification canceled but the results of the races are invalid and therefore the result obtained by the British-Thai in Sochi for & ograve; Now potr & agrave; look, we hope in a way more & ugrave; crystalline, qualifying for Pyeongchang 2018.
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http://www.spiegel.de/sport/wintersport/skirennfahrerin-vanessa-mae-cas-hebt-sperre-auf-a-1039754.html
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