Popular violinist Vanessa-Mae who debuted in the Sochi Winter Olympics has been banned for fixing races.
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While the Olympics are a favorite of many some believe the games are tainted due to greedy hands and deep pockets. Today those people might have a point as Vanessa-Mae, a popular violinist who made her debut in Sochi this past February has been banned by the International Ski Federation for four years after falsely making her way to the games.
According to the ISF, the results of four ladies’ giant slalom races that took place on the 18th and 19th of January at Krvavec were rigged which has lead to Vanessa-Mae being banned.
While the results themselves didn’t occur in the actual Olympics, the races that were rigged allowed Vanessa-Mae to achieve the needed FIS point performance level to be eligible for participation in the Olympic Winter Games.
"After considering written submissions and testimony at a hearing on 3rd October 2014, the Hearing Panel found to its comfortable satisfaction that the results of the four ladies giant slalom races that took place on 18th and 19th January 2014 at Krvavec (SLO) were manipulated, resulting in the calculation of FIS Points that do not reflect the true performance of the competitors that participated in those events and in particular the points awarded to Vanessa Vanakorn (Mae)."
Thankfully for Vanessa-Mae she does have a fallback outside of racing considering she’s sold over 10 million albums worldwide, though one would assume the fact she’s been accused of participating in a fixed race (with Olympic Games implications) has left her with plenty of egg on her face.
She will have up to 21-days to file an appeal against the ban though it’s currently not known if that is in her plans (though there’s little reason not to do so).
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