27Feb 2019 by DS News Team
That Word Again: Doping

That Word Again: Doping

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Not what anybody wanted to hear again, but here it goes: The Austrian police reps announced on Wednesday that they "succeeded in smashing an international doping network" in cross country skiing. [caption id="attachment_10420" align="aligncenter" width="1920"] Austrian police in Seefelfd. It is not known whether this particular unit was/is involved in investigation [/caption] Suspects are not formally named by widely believed ( and in case of Austrians confirmed by their coach) to be Andreas Veerpalu, son of the double Olympic gold medalist Andrus Veerpalu, and Karel Tammjärv from Estonia, . Kazakhstan's Alexey Poltoranin and Dominik Baldauf and Max Hauke from Team Austria. [caption id="attachment_10422" align="aligncenter" width="1920"] Dominik Baldauf racing in Dresden in January 2019 [/caption] The police is giving chilling details of "one of the suspects being literally caught with a…
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01Feb 2019 by DS News Team
Toblach-Cortina Race Cancelled

Toblach-Cortina Race Cancelled

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Heavy snowfall in the Dolomites wrecked the organizers' plans. The threat of avalanches is too big, the specialists said - and have shown the red flag to the race. Too bad, the 42th Toblach-Cortina 2019 was shaping up to be one of the most exciting long distance races of the season. Not only the world champion Sergey Ustiugov was supposed to make another appearance at the Alpine race, this year he was to be accompanied by Evgeny Belov, another strong Russian distance racer. [caption id="attachment_10104" align="aligncenter" width="1920"] Ustiugov and his then-coach Egor Sorin at Toblach-Cortina' 18. Ustiugov finished 3d [/caption] [caption id="attachment_10105" align="aligncenter" width="1920"] ...in 2018 Ustiugov signed for the race the last moment, arrived with only two pre-waxed pairs of skis and did not know how the finish in…
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