Rough results manipulation in athletics – the Finnish boss reveals: “The standard collapsed at the Olympics”

Influential athletics referee Antti Pihlakoski tells about the twists and turns of his bread. Do you remember the Olympic season in Rio 2016, when no less than 17 different track and field athletes were suspected of reaching the five ring games due to result manipulation? The harshest example was the case of two Iranian stone throwers. Kaveh Mousani and Pejman Ghalenoui significantly improved their own records in the competition held on the Belarusian field on July 8, 2016. That was the last time the results were taken into account in the Olympic venues. Suomen’s Tuomas Seppänen was left with a bitter taste, because due to the collision, he missed out on Brazil by a centimeter.

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