Black Friday Week for investigative Olympic journalism

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Investigate, analyse, clarify. As good as we can. That's exactly what we are trying to do at THE INQUISITOR project. And that's what you currently get in this field, only here, in this abundance and depth – because the Olympic family is much more than FIFA and football. There are many more federations and officials deserving a proper inquisition.

You want evidence? Check it out, there are archives, after all.

Well, it is clear that not everyone has the same enjoyment of reading.

Klaus Schormann, António Silva, Robert Stull, Shiny Fang, Juan Antonio Samaranch, Pâquerette Girard Zappelli, Antonio Arimany, Marisol Casado, Thomas Bach, Husain Al-Musallam, Souleiman Waberi, Liu Guoliang, Amélie Oudéa-Castéra, Petra Sörling, Sheikh Ahmad, Vitaly Logvin, Bruno Gares, Umar Kremlev, Alisher Usmanov, some more IOC directors and many others who were regulars here recently certainly don't.

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What I didn't mention in yesterday's article because the UIPM press release on the Riyadh congress was only put online much later...

Take a look: the UIPM has a new vice president from Panama who was previously unknown and is currently also vice president of World Fencing (FIE)...

... exactly as I outlined it for you last week in this thrilling background article on Usmanov's important servant Vitaly Logvin:

Usmanov’s important confidant in fencing, feared by many: Vitaly Logvin, a Soviet-Uzbek-Mexican string-puller

He is the oligarch’s all-purpose weapon in the Fédération Internationale d’Escrime (FIE). His CV is at least as interesting and controversial as his reputation. You must get to know Vitaly Logvin Grechuhin, shortly before FIE’s election congress in his and Alisher Usmanov’s hometown of Tashkent.

THE INQUISITORJens Weinreich

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