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Also today the FIS announced that six Russian cross-country skiers were suspended following the decision to open IOC un''indagine on a total of 28 athletes for doping violation as a result of the findings in the report McLaren.
Friday 23 December 2016 3 minutes reading time
This means that when the sextet can not take part in any international competition. Of course, the names for the moment have not been made public, but precisely because of the suspension will not remain unknown for long if there will be weight absences in the coming races.
A planning purposes it should be mentioned as a Wednesday night in Russia is in the public domain an excel file with lists of suspicious athletes. This document has not yet received an official imprimatur, but at the same time its veracity has never been disproved.
In one of these lists appear the names of athletes whose samples were tampered with. Be a coincidence, but cross-country skiers included in the list are just 6 and, between them, there are heavy names.
It is Alexander Legkov, Maxim Vylegzhanin, Alexey Petukhov, Evgeny Belov, Julia Ivanova, Evgenia Shapovalova.
These are really the six suspended? We'll find out very soon. If even just one of them were to show up at the start in a competition under the 'auspices Fis, then the' hypothesis would fall immediately (as well as the 'credibility of the list became public).
Meanwhile, the FIS announced as the Russian Cross Country Ski Federation has decided to give all''organizzazione of the finals of the World, planned in Tyumen in March 2017. The resort Siberian Cup also in the same period would have to accommodate the maximum circuit biathlon, but this event will not take place.
The FIS will announce in the coming weeks the 'system to which will be entrusted with the' last act of the fund season.
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