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15. Reading the link, there are "IOC technical manuals" available. . .

Thu Oct 2, 2014, 05:57 PM

Oct 2014

. . .courtesy of a Norwegian newspaper called VG:
(If you have a Google translator, so much the better)

http://www.vg.no

http://www.vg.no/nyheter/innenriks/ol-2022/sp-veteran-norge-maa-vurdere-aa-boikotte-ol/a/23308066/

And here are the "technical manuals", in English:
http://www.ol22.no/en/documents-and-downloads

I don't know if anybody here will find "smoking guns" or anything, since I don't have the time to dive into all this. If anybody else wants to, have at it.

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