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Are they saying they've decided their is no case to answer on just the 3 sets of data that were brought up or are they saying they've gone on to review all of the other data they have and there's no case to answer?
They're saying that at this time the last thing they need is for one of their marquee athletes from the home nation of their president to become the poster girl for the blood manipulation which seems to have been the hallmark of elite endurance runners for the past decade or more. It's easy to throw a few Russians under the bus, since Russia is a notorious kleptocracy from top to bottom, so nobody is that surprised that Russian sport has integrated the national culture of 'everything is for sale'. If Paula is busted, they have to admit that it's not just in bad countries that bad things happen.
In the article they say,
It doesn't sound as confident as saying we believe Paula's explanations are the reasons for the unusual values
Are they saying they've decided their is no case to answer on just the 3 sets of data that were brought up or are they saying they've gone on to review all of the other data they have and there's no case to answer?