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Martin Tauber

Austrian cross-country skier

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 15, 2025
Entity authorityQ325415 ↗
Source-derived summary

Martin Tauber (born 4 November 1976) is a former Austrian cross-country skier. He competed in the men's 15 kilometre classical event at the 2006 Winter Olympics.

Doping scandal in Turin

In April 2007 Tauber was banned for life by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) from competing in any Olympic Games for doping at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin.

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“Martin Tauber” enters the record as austrian cross-country skier. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Martin, Tauber and Austrian can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1976, 2006, 2007—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1976-11-04. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Martin, Tauber and Austrian.
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“Martin Tauber” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Martin, Tauber and Austrian provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 15, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q325415. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1976, 2006 and 2007.

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This entry incorporates text from “Martin Tauber” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.