Although GB qualified only fourth fastest, it took the intervention of the referees to definitively end their medal hopes.
The decision by the five-judge panel to clear the pair definitively ends the long-running saga.
While the about-face does not definitively end Facebook's chances of establishing the company, it makes success very unlikely, the person said.
Londoño hailed a deal that will enable Colombians "to definitively end the war and confront our differences in a civilised manner".
"Either Europe decides to seriously offer Italy some concrete help, beginning with for example the 180 immigrants on board the Diciotti ship, or we will be forced to do what will definitively end the human traffickers' business.
But Chief Justice John Roberts's successive opinions in defense of the Affordable Care Act — National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius, in 2012, and then, last week, King v. Burwell — have definitively ended the debate about the legality of Obamacare.
On Friday, Wyden and two intelligence committee colleagues, the Democrats Mark Udall and Martin Heinrich, released a letter to Obama in which they urged him to definitively end bulk surveillance on domestic phone data.
When the century's other great choreographer, Frederick Ashton, died in 1988, followed by his British compatriot Kenneth MacMillan in 1992, it seemed that a great age of ballet had definitively ended.
(The Danish theatre, having definitively ended a somewhat intermittent existence after the devastating Copenhagen fire of October 1728, reopened in 1747, and he resumed his playwriting, but these plays were never to be as successful as the earlier ones).
On Sunday, in a sign that the presidential campaign had definitively ended and that the fast-forming administration had become the focal point, the faces of Mr. Obama's new team appeared across the spectrum of Sunday talk shows, a changing of the guard more than two months before he officially assumes power.
