FIS bans Austrian racers for role in doping scandal

By Published On: November 23rd, 2007Comments Off on FIS bans Austrian racers for role in doping scandal

   The FIS banned three Austrian cross-country skiers for two years Thursday for their role in the doping scandal at the 2006 Olympics in Turin, Italy.
    Martin Tauber, Johannes Eder and Roland Diethart were suspended and deprived of all their results and prize money won since Feb. 16, 2006.

   
The FIS banned three Austrian cross-country skiers for two years Thursday for their role in the doping scandal at the 2006 Olympics in Turin, Italy.
    Martin Tauber, Johannes Eder and Roland Diethart were suspended and deprived of all their results and prize money won since Feb. 16, 2006.
    In April 2007, the International Olympic Committee gave lifetime Olympic bans to the three cross-country skiers and Jurgen Pinter, who was not fined by FIS on Thursday, as well as biathletes Wolfgang Perner and Wolfgang Rottmann.
Perner and Rottmann, who retired from the sports immediately after the Olympics, later got lifetime bans from the Austrian Ski Federation.
    Within the next three weeks, the athletes can appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport to have their FIS bans overturned. They have already appealed to the sports court to have their Olympic bans overturned.
Italian police raided the Austrian cross-country and biathlon team lodgings during the Turin Games, seizing a large amount of doping products and equipment.
    The raid triggered an investigation that led the IOC to impose the lifetime bans against the six athletes involved in the scandal.
    Also, the IOC fined the Austrian Olympic Committee US$1 million for failing to prevent the blood-doping violations. -AP

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