Speed skating Olympic champion Claudia Pechstein still gets a chance to enforce compensation for pain and suffering and damages because of her two-year doping ban.
The Federal Constitutional Court has overturned a judgment of the Federal Court of Justice from 2016, as announced in Karlsruhe on Tuesday.
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Pechstein’s trial against the International Skating Union (ISU) can thus be continued before the Munich Higher Regional Court.
Pechstein had lodged a complaint with the Federal Constitutional Court because, in her opinion, the CAS was not an independent arbitral tribunal.
The ISU banned Pechstein for two years in February 2009 because of abnormal blood values. Pechstein always claimed to have never doped – and has been fighting against the association ever since.
The five-time Olympic champion was banned for two years by the World Skating Federation in February 2009 because of abnormal blood values. Pechstein denied any doping. Subsequent intensive investigations identified a blood anomaly inherited from the father as the reason for her increased values. Since then, the 50-year-old has sued the world association.
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