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Olympic Pool - Bet on the winners!
Ok, so SI has predicted the winners of the 2006 Olympic xc ski races.
Can you do better than them? We'll see! XCOttawa.ca has setup a little pool for fun and a few minor prizes. (No Rick Tochett's here!) All are welcome to submit their entries and see how they do. Every entry is eligible for the prizes. See: http://www.xcottawa.ca/articles.php?id=406 Best of luck! Craig@xcottawa www.xcottawa.ca |
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For the Pursuits and Team sprints, do not put too much hope in the following
athletes, since their high haemoglobin values got them benched for the next 5 days... FIS MEDIA INFO Torino 2006: Eight start prohibitions issued due to too high haemoglobin values registered in FIS pre-Olympic testing Pragelato, 9th Feb, 2006/ -- In the course of the pre-competition blood testing carried out by FIS in Torino whereby all Cross-Country and Nordic Combined Athletes will be tested prior to their first competition at the Olympic Winter Games, the following athletes have today been issued with a start prohibition for five consecutive days due to too high haemoglobin values: Sean Crooks (CAN), male Sergey Dalidovich (BLR), male Jean Marc Gaillard (FRA), male Aleksandr Latzukin (BLR), male Natalia Matveeva (RUS), female Kikkan Randall (USA), female Evi Sachenbacher (GER), female Leif Zimmermann (USA), male This prohibition from participating in the competition(s) is not a sanction, but is considered to serve to protect the health of the Athlete. Consequently, no disciplinary measures will be taken. In the two days of testing, 224 Athletes have been tested. The total number of Cross-Country and Nordic Combined Athletes participating in the XX Olympic Winter Games is 330 and 63, respectively. A start prohibition results from the process that is defined in the Article B.4.2 of the Procedural Guidelines to the FIS Anti-Doping Rules: "If an Athlete shows a haemoglobin value that is equal to or exceeds the values of 16.0 g/dl for ladies and 17.0 g/dl for men after two consecutive measurements, the Athlete will be notified by the representative of the Jury that he/she is not allowed to start any competitions for five consecutive days, including the day on which the test took place: e.g. if the blood test takes place on Monday the Athlete will not be permitted to start again until Saturday (and then only subject to the results of a new blood test, as defined in Article B.4.5)." "Craig Storey" wrote in message ... Ok, so SI has predicted the winners of the 2006 Olympic xc ski races. Can you do better than them? We'll see! XCOttawa.ca has setup a little pool for fun and a few minor prizes. (No Rick Tochett's here!) All are welcome to submit their entries and see how they do. Every entry is eligible for the prizes. See: http://www.xcottawa.ca/articles.php?id=406 Best of luck! Craig@xcottawa www.xcottawa.ca |
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I'll sign up sure thing. Sounds like a great thing. Nothing like betting on cross-country skiing. |
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