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The lawyer of speed skater Claudia Pechstein has appealed to the International Sports Court on Tuesday CAS appeal against the two-year suspension for the Berliner. Will soon launch an application for an injunction against the exclusion of the five-time Olympic gold medalist from the official training organization.

The decree must be translated into English and is expected to run later this week to the CAS in Lausanne, said Pechstein’s lawyer Simon Bergmann on Wednesday.

The 37-year-old graduated in his words, being primarily training on the bike and on rollers. The German speed skating community had indicated on Monday that Pechstein can no longer participate in activities of the association. This is based on the code of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA).

Without ice training reduced the chances of an Olympic participation in 2010 in Vancouver, but is already at a minimum. The International Skating Union (ISU) was blocked due to striking Pechstein blood levels during the World Cup in February in Hamar for two years. A positive doping test does not exist. Pechstein had denied doping again on Monday and will shortly hold a press conference.

With the fall Claudia Pechstein, the doping issue has now also reached the German speed skating sports. In the long list of abuses came to the fore especially two sports is cheating in athletics and cycling in the most common. See here the most famous cases:

Knut Jenssen (cycling)
At the 1960 Olympic Games, the Danish cyclist crashes during the team time trial and died in hospital. Only later will be released that he was doped with amphetamines.

Tom Simpson (cycling)
In the 1967 Tour de France of the British collapse in the ascent to 1912 meters high Mont Ventoux and dies. In Simpson’s jersey pockets tubes are found with amphetamines.

Ben Johnson (athletics)
At the 1988 Olympics in Seoul, the Canadian sprinter won the 100-meters while the final against his great rival, Carl Lewis (USA), its return later in world record time of 9.79 seconds but won gold medals. With him, the anabolic steroid stanozolol is demonstrated. Johnson is considered one of the biggest cheats in the Olympic history.

Katrin Krabbe (athletics)
In 1992, the double world champion in Tokyo in 1991, the illicit drug funds clenbuterol is demonstrated. The one-year ban by the German Athletics Federation (DLV) is extended by the IAAF for two years. According to the Munich court that lock affects the fundamental right to freedom of profession. You can recognize a claim for damages against the IAAF of the sprinter in the amount of 1.2 million D-marks.

Diego Armando Maradona (soccer)
During the 1994 FIFA World Cup to Argentina’s superstar, the banned substance ephedrine is proved. He was expelled from the tournament.

The cycling team Festina (cycling)
In the 1998 Tour de France will be at Team maintainer Willy Voet en masse unauthorized material is found to take drugs. It followed raids by the police, a nationwide system of doping in cycling will be unmasked. The tour is facing the biggest cycling scandal several times shortly before the demolition.

Dieter Baumann (athletics)
In 1999, the 5000-meter Olympic champion from 1992 through the “toothpaste scandal” gained dubious fame when he is tested positive for nandrolone. The Swabian bringing the case before the International Court of Sports, but the 2000 final
Games in Sydney excluded.

C. J. Hunter (Athletics)
Before the 2000 Olympics in Sydney, the American shot-putter before the Games, tested positive four times, blocked and ended his career. Before the 2004 Games in Athens, he accuses his former wife Marion Jones, the triple gold medalist from Sydney, of doping.

Johann Mühlegg (Nordic skiing)
At the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City won three times and has to return the gold medals after his release as a blood doping offenders.

Ekaterina Thanou and Kostas Kenteris (athletics)
At the 2004 Olympics in Athens, the Greek sprinter flee one days before the Games begin before inspectors of the World Anti-Doping Agency in the Olympic Village and will be excluded from the Games. In June 2006, they confess their escape, but not the doping allegations, a public. The duo will be blocked for two years.

Mariano Puerta (Tennis)
2005, the professional tennis player from Argentina as a repeat offender is suspended for eight years. Shortly after his final defeat at Roland Garros against the Spaniard Rafael Nadal is his taking of the prohibited means demonstrated Etilefrine. He had been suspended in 2003 because of clenbuterol-doping. Even his countrymen Juan Ignacio Chela, Guillermo Coria and Guillermo Canas has been convicted of doping abuse.

Austrian athletes (winter sport)
At the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin flees after a doping raid on their headquarters coach Walter Mayer. During the raid, syringes, drugs and equipment to ensure blood transfusion. Four cross-country skiers and two biathletes are excluded from the International Olympic Committee (IOC) for life from Olympic Games, the National Olympic Committee of Austria (Austrian Olympic Committee) is forced by the IOC to personnel changes, and must pay one million U.S. dollars penalty.

Justin Gatlin (track)
2006 provides the Olympic champion, world champion and world record holder himself known to his positive A test for testosterone. The Americans, 1991 has already tested positive for amphetamines, as a repeat offender escapes a lifetime ban, because he offers as a “star witness” against his coach Trevor Graham have long suspected. Gatlin is disabled eight years.

Jan Ullrich and Ivan Basso (cycling)
Before the 2006 Tour de France, the two top favorites of the Tour de France will be excluded because they should be involved in the doping scandal at the Spanish doctor Eufemiano Fuentes. Ullrich denies the allegations.

Floyd Landis (cycling)
The Tour de France winner of 2006, after winning the 17th Stage through the Alps, an unusually high value of testosterone / epitestosterone proved. He denied all doping allegations. 14 months after the Tour de France victory for Landis testosterone doping blocked for two years. The victory is denied him.

Eight former professional cyclist and three doctors
2007, the driver Jörg Jaksche, Bert Dietz, Christian Henn, Udo Bölts, Brian Holm, Rolf Aldag, Erik Zabel and Bjarne Riis admitted, the Tour winner in 1996, blood doping. The Sports Physicians Lothar Heinrich, Andreas Schmid and Georg Huber will be suspended from the Freiburg University Hospital.

Marion Jones (track / three-time Olympic gold medalist)
In October 2007, the American admitted, under a of a criminal investigation to have doped for years. The gold medals were stripped of the sprinter in December 2007 by the IOC. The medals had been returned by choice. For perjury in two cases it was also sentenced to a prison term of six months.

Claudia Pechstein (skating / five-time Olympic gold medalist)
On 3 July 2009 declared the International Skating Union (ISU), the five-time Olympic gold medalist has been blocked due to blood doping. A positive doping finding does not exist. Pechstein was blocked by evidence, her blood profile revealed by ISU data anomalies.