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A flap over who really won the the women’s 15k biathlon on Friday apparently was laid to rest, with no change in the standings.

Television analyst Ken Karpoff, a former biathlete, had reported Sunday on Canadian TV that targets failed to register hits at least four times in the skiing-shooting event and that Svetlana Paramygina of Belarus, not Canadian Myriam Bedard, should have been the winner. Paramygina finished fourth.

“Everything was conducted correctly,” said Peter Bayer, secretary general of the International Biathlon Union, citing videotapes as evidence.

Bedard said, “With those targets there is no doubt. We have checked the TV videotapes together with the jury. We can absolutely say that the targets were exactly correct.”

Karpoff, who competed at Calgary with the Canadian biathlon team in 1988, used a computer-enlarged videotape of the targets in his report.