Berlin --
Since it was probably a fat load off my mind: the more striking because of blood tests for two years locked speed skating Olympic champion Claudia Pechstein should start on Friday at the World Cup in Salt Lake City, over 3000 meters.
The Swiss Federal Supreme Court announced on Tuesday instead of an urgent application of the Berliner. This was confirmed by her manager Ralf Grengel.
Pechstein will take action before the District Court against the ban and is trying on the Olympic track in 2002, the last chance for Olympic qualification to use.
The speed skating athlete heard the news on Tuesday morning during practice at the rink in Berlin-Hohenschoenhausen. "For me it's great to know of course that the training of the past few weeks has paid off and now I get the chance to qualify for the Olympics," said the 37-year-old.
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Only on Monday their lawyers had lodged the urgent application to the Swiss Federal Court. The document lists a number of procedural errors by the International Court of Sport CAS in its ruling on 25 grounds November based on the perspective of lawyers has made Pechstein.
With the main opposition in the procedure before the Swiss court has Pechstein page 30 days time. But since the Christmas holidays in between lie the complaint is filed until the new year.
