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ALAIN BAXTER TEAM GB'S FIRST SNOWSPORTS OLYMPIC MEDAL WINNER

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Nicola Guthrie
6 months ago

My cousin Alain won that medal fair and square for being the brilliant athlete and skier that he is. He used a Vicks Inhaler to clear his blocked nose because he knew that it was an ‘allowed’ medication. He did not know that American Vicks had something else in it. This did not make him win his medal!! The years of hard work, sacrifice, hard grind, sleeping in his car, trying to raise funds and find support - that is what won him the bronze medal. I am fed up watching skiing, Winter Olympics and ski Sunday on the BBC and there is barely a mention of him. His life was ripped apart in that moment. HIS MEDAL SHOULD BE GIVEN BACK TO HIM

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Dom Ward
6 months ago

Alain deserves his bronze medal!!

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Charlie
4 years ago

I go to school with Alain Baxter's kids and im in the same year as Kerr Baxter and a year above Brooke Baxter. Give their Dad his Medal back.

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Scott Howard
4 years ago

Even GSK labs confirmed the findings. This was a travesty of justice and looks unbalanced after tbe treatment of Russian skaters this year.

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Christian Shackleton
4 years ago

Give back the medal - or improve product labelling in the US please!!

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Anthony Skidmore
5 years ago

Very unfair and unsportsmanlike to take away his medal.

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Simon Henly
5 years ago

A travesty of justice, a nation robbed of a hero by corrupt medical advice

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Andrew Rae
7 years ago

Absolutely robbed by inconsistent advice in the enquiry!

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Ollie
7 years ago

help him he deserves it

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Martin Boon
8 years ago

Said it before, say it again, should never had been taken from him away from him over an inhailer.

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Graham Harrison
8 years ago

Graham

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George Whyte
8 years ago

He deserves to get the medal back!

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Bill Davidson
8 years ago

an absolute travesty!

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Sue Jones
8 years ago

The time is well overdue that this cleared athlete should have his medal returned.

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Philip King
8 years ago

He was cleared, give it back. :/

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Kenneth. King
8 years ago

Time this injustice was righted. He used a Vicks sinex purchased in the US which contained a banned substance.

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Kenneth. King
8 years ago

Time this injustice was righted. He used a Vicks sinex purchased in the US which contained a banned substance.

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Sally Bruce
8 years ago

Dr Catlin has a lot to answer for - passing US athletes who have ingested banned substances yet maintaining an opposing stance to a GB athlete. Alain Baxter's medal needs to be returned. He deserves justice.

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Wilma
8 years ago

He was cleared so is worthy of his medal.

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Jof Harrison
8 years ago

Alain was robbed of this medal!