“I believe they may well, if they have been properly stored ? without access to outside people so they cannot be tampered with. Also in a refrigerator or deep frozen, ... If not in such a situation ? there's no guarantee they have not been subjected to undue temperatures.”
“We, like many other federations, were not 100 percent happy with the code, but for the sake of harmonization and loyalty and to move the code forward we sort of compromised, all of us.”
“We never asked the Italian police to take action. We informed them that we would conduct testing on the evening of the 18th and they decided to take action at the same time.”