Violinist Vanessa Mae banned by FIS for cheating.

Seeems to have cheated to get to ski for Thailand…. . Well she is a good fiddler!

Link please ?

A ban is a bit irrelevant as it was her goal to ski at the Olympics which she got to do. It wasn’t a career move for her.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/winter-sports/30005830

Good, it was an insult to the ski world !!

Pointless action though, five officials were also punished, doesn’t say what nationality though that I can see, surely the Thai Olympic Committee should be sanctioned ?

It’s because she was using Strada.

Reading the BBC article, it doesn’t look like it was Lance level in its sophistication. The results included someone who wasn’t even there 😀

The FIS should hold it’s head in shame for not having a proper qualification series, then it wouldn’t be open to such abuse. IMO it is they who have come out of this badly

No big surprises there – it was always apparent those results were dodgy. At least the insult of her taking part is at least now partly balanced by her embarrassment that everybody knows she cheated.

I guess she’ll have to bow out now.

I’m surprised she managed to string so many people along.

I did always think she was on the fiddle…..

lets be honest, it’s one of the most minor cases of corruption associated with the Sochi Olympics.

So she wasn’t the fastest to the bottom of the Hill then?

lets be honest, it’s one of the most minor cases of corruption associated with the Sochi Olympics.

You mae be right, there.

One rule for them, one rule for Stradivarius

She’ll be Bach, mark my words.

Plucking terrible. Looks like she made a concertoed effort to get to the games though.

tragically1969 – Member

Good, it was an insult to the ski world !!

Pointless action though, five officials were also punished, doesn’t say what nationality though that I can see, surely the Thai Olympic Committee should be sanctioned ?

The dodgy qualification results were in Slovenia.

She should have gone for Archery .
it could have seen her a horse hair away from a medal.

I will bow out now

she made a concertoed effort

😆

I’ve got no symphony for her personally.

At least the insult of her taking part is at least now partly balanced by her embarrassment that everybody knows she cheated

THIS
I can think of no way to get Paganini into the thread

Yes she Violalated the rules.

And she’s in big treble with the authorities. It’s a major offence, and they’re going to throw away the key, I expect.

IGMC

I’m (cat)gutted about this

she will make a return though as she’s Offenbach. 😳

Thai chick off ski?

I’m sure she’ll regain her composer sooner or later.

She’d do anything to stave off the opposition….. 🙂

Thai chick off ski?

Quite a unique case…

Certainly seems orchestrated,

Will have raised tensions no doubt

but I don’t mean to draw this back and forth and make a racket.

Thai chick off ski?

I’m sat on a quiet train in Denmark LOLcanoing to that one and geting some weird looks. Excellent

I can think of no way to get Paganini into the thread

You’ll have to wait until page nine. Sorry. (Thanks Ken Dodd)

Thai chick off ski?

took me even longer than the dude in Jamie’s gif
well done, sir

Well I bet she had fun at the time, on that note, I hope her thermals were comfortable, sometimes I find them a bit

slim for knee.

It just goes to show how a lack of good Christian values allows such diabolical corruption to take place. I have got the right officials, the Slovenian, Pagan-ini?

Yes, I know what I have done and I am sorry…

I didn’t think skiing was her forte. Too much glissando and the cadence is all wrong, quavering about on a snow slope. Minim um punishment should be to be behind bars.

There’s no haydn for her – now the authorities have got a handel on her tricks, she’ll on the blackliszt for years.

some officials for the chop in this case – serves them right for being delius

What a vile incident. Con her to win a minor back door route to the olympics

She must have had her rosins

Did she get air in a g string?