Ms Lastera has, so far, put five local officials, including the mayor of Albertville, the site of the 1992 winter Olympic Games, under formal examination (one step short of being charged) for "poisoning, deliberately endangering the lives of others, involuntary injury and manslaughter".
Rajeev Thacker, a London-based soliciter who is working on the case for Rippington, said that he hoped the legal action would lead to an examination among organizers of the overall Olympic program in the city.
More I.O.C. and United States Olympic Committee members could face cross-examination, creating more embarrassment for an Olympic movement that is already as fragile as a soap bubble.
On the third day of his cross-examination, Mr Nel pressed the South African Olympic sprinter to explain the final moments leading up to the shooting.
Others have pointed to the Chinese swim program's long rap sheet of previous drug offenses, and history shows that mind-boggling Olympic performances are certainly worthy of some suspicion, or at least close examination.
Netflix landed this examination of an insidious Russian state-sponsored doping program for Olympic athletes in a "historic" deal, shelling out $5 million after its premiere at Sundance Film Festival.
He secured bail for the Olympic athlete after then-police investigator, Hilton Botha, wilted under his cross-examination, weakening the state's case.
This is consistent with a study [63] conducted in the USA between 1992 and 1995 on junior Olympic competitors and in other elites in which 25% had never had an eye examination.
The South African Olympic sprinter read the poem to the court after five days of gruelling cross-examination.
He began with an Olympic-calibre flurry of triplets on top of triplets, then moved into an almost clinical examination of the conga drum's head.
