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Also today came the official confirmation of what can be deduced in recent days. There are names of the first order among the Russian cross-country skiers suspended by FIS due dell''indagine open about them by the IOC.
Tuesday 27 December 2016 2 minutes reading time
Yelena Välbe, president of the Russian ski federation announced the R-Sport magazine as "Alexander Legkov, Maxim Vylegzhanin, Alexey Petukhov and Evgeny Belov can not take part in the Tour de Ski since they are among the six cross-country skiers suspended temporarily by the FIS".
In recent days and Julia Ivanova Evgenia Shapovalova they had admitted them sponte to have been reached by the precautionary measure of the international federation.
The names of the six cross-country skiers appeared on the list of McLaren called the report "Scratches document", which became public through leaks last week. It is a list of athletes whose samples taken during the Sochi 2014 are suspected of having been tampered with due to scratches on the tubes. At this point we must be considered in all respects truthful document.
So one is waiting to see what conclusions and consequences can be born out of this inchiest. At the Olympic Games in Sochi and Legkov Vylegzhanin were gold and silver respectively in the 50 km and won the 'silver in the relay. In the following winter 2014 - '' 15 Vylegzhanin won the 'World Championship gold in skiathlon Belov and concluded according to the Tour de Ski.
Who knows that the 'golden books should not be rewritten ...
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