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The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has said that reanalysis of all samples taken during the 2006 Olympic Winter Games in Turin has been completed without any positive cases being established, which means that the gold medals won by Estonian cross-county skier Kristina Smigun-Vahi are no longer under threat, Postimees said, cites LETA/BNS.

"The IOC confirms that the reanalysis of all samples taken during the 2006 Olympic Winter Games in Turin has been completed, and this reanalysis did not result in any positive cases. There are no ongoing proceedings and this reanalysis process is now definitively closed," the IOC said on its website.

"Today my day is full of sunshine. We've all been waiting for these couple of sentences for long. I've got nothing to add -- it says everything very clearly," Smigun-Vahi told Postimees.

The IOC announced in December 2013 that container A of a sample given by Smigun-Vahi in Turin had tested positive for doping. Smigun-Vahi contested the opening of the container A in a court of law and as a result, container B was not opened.

Smigun-Vahi won gold medals in women's 7.5km + 7.5 km skiathlon and in 10 km classical race in Turin.