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The FIS was banned for four years, the Thai and British violinist Vanessa Mae for having qualified through results manipulated by the female giant Olympic Games in Sochi in 2014.
Tuesday 11 November 2014 5 minutes reading time
The results of the four giants played between 17 and 19 January in the resort & agrave; Slovenian Krvavec, inform the FIS has been manipulated. In those races Vanessa Vanakorn as & egrave; recognized by the International Ski Federation (Vanakorn & egrave; father's surname) was ranked tenth, ninth, sixth and seventh, earning the FIS points to go to Sochi, where he & egrave; over sixty-seventh and last of the athletes arrive at the finish line with over 50 seconds behind the winner Tina Maze.
THE FIS announced that those four races were organized at the request of management as a last opportunity Vanakorn & agrave; for the & rsquo; artist, born in Singapore October 27, 1978, to qualify for the Games. But last July, the Slovenian turned out federsci & ograve; various processes in those giants. By subsequent testimony & egrave; was found that: the charts of two of these races c & rsquo; it 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 & egrave; left out of the starting gate, which was then opened manually from & rsquo; when the employee & rsquo; athlete was already & agrave; on track; a & rsquo; but retired athlete with the best FIS points participated with the & rsquo; s sole purpose of lowering the penalty & agrave; related to postings of other competitors; the weather conditions were so & igrave; bad that none of the races & egrave; was regular and that any other race in Slovenia would be canceled; FIS rules against the two rounds were played on the same track; at & 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, only eight were on the way and only six were classified.
The panel hearing the FIS called for the & rsquo; cancellation of races in the Federal Council which will be held & agrave; November 18, in this case Vanessa Vanakorn (Thailand), Federica Selva San Marino) and Ieva Januskeviciute (Lithuania) would not have reached the FIS points needed to go to the Games. Meanwhile rained suspensions in the form of a contract from racing FIS: four years Vanessa Mae Vanakorn two years with the referee Slovenian Borut Hrobat, year to year & rsquo; s Italian delegate FIS Fabio De Cassan, the Slovenian responsible chronometers Matiaz Goltez in Slovenian court and to Vlado Makuc & rsquo; s employee base Slovenian Uros Sinkovec. It & rsquo; possible recourse against these suspensions within 21 days of the Court of Arbitration for Sport in Lausanne.
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