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Lack of FIS Action on Banned Russians Causing Confusion: ‘It Shouldn’t Be This Difficult’
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Lack of FIS Action on Banned Russians Causing Confusion: ‘It Shouldn’t Be This Difficult’

Chelsea LittleNovember 14, 2017

Note: On. Nov. 23, the day before the first World Cup race of the season, the the CAS decision that the provisional sanctions of the Russian cross-country athletes would expire on 31st October and can only be reinstated if there was more specific evidence of individual anti-doping rule violations.” In the CAS press release announcing the Oct. 31 deadline for FIS to bring a case against the skiers, the court only wrote that “a further provisional suspension may be imposed on the athletes...

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FIS on Allowing Suspended Russian Skiers to Rejoin National Team: It’s ‘Special Circumstances’
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FIS on Allowing Suspended Russian Skiers to Rejoin National Team: It’s ‘Special Circumstances’

Chelsea LittleJune 2, 2017

In part of the media storm following the Court of Arbitration for Sport’s response to an appeal by six Russian cross-country skiers, Russian Ski Federation President Elena Valbe announcing the suspensions on Dec. 22, 2016. In cases without a positive drug test, sports federations are allowed to implement an “optional provisional suspension”. This is what FIS put in place on the six Russian skiers, whose samples were allegedly tampered with at the 2014 Olympics. Fussek said...

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FIS Rules and Keeping Quiet: Why You Didn’t Hear About Sundby Sooner
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FIS Rules and Keeping Quiet: Why You Didn’t Hear About Sundby Sooner

Chelsea LittleJuly 23, 2016

FIS rules did not require a provisional suspension for Norway's Martin Johnsrud Sundby after his urine samples came back with high concentrations of salbutamol. And after their hearing panel concluded he had broken no rules - a finding later reverse by the Court of Arbitration for Sport - FIS could only publicize the case with Sundby's permission. They say he refused.

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FIS Moving, With Care, Toward Harmonization with IOC Blood Passport Testing at Olympic Games
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FIS Moving, With Care, Toward Harmonization with IOC Blood Passport Testing at Olympic Games

Chelsea LittleJuly 15, 20141

FIS Anti-Doping Coordinator Sarah Fussek says that her federation is in the very early stages of harmonizing their Athlete Biological Passport testing protocol with other winter sports federations, with a possible end result of the IOC taking over all testing at the Olympics. This would allow FIS to do more testing at other events in Olympic years.

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How Andrus Veerpalu’s Doping Case Turned into a Mudfight

Chelsea LittleSeptember 26, 20113

As soon as the news broke that Estonian Olympic gold medalist and world champion Andrus Veerpalu had tested positive for human growth hormone (HGH), the ski world knew that a fight lay ahead. For Veerpalu and the Estonians, a doping ban would be disastrous; as FasterSkier reported a 1999 study by a group of European and Australian researchers showed that exercise did spike HGH levels in the bloodstream by more then tenfold, the decline was dramatic...

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FIS: Pankratov Gets Two-Year Ban

Nathaniel HerzJanuary 11, 2011

Russian cross-country skier Nikolay Pankratov has received a two-year ban from the International Ski Federation (FIS), FIS Anti-Doping Administrator Sarah Fussek said Tuesday morning. Pankratov, who was caught by Swiss customs in September with intravenous equipment and 22 vials of Actovegin—a suspicious, though legal drug—was barred from FIS competitions through September, 2012. Pankratov was sanctioned based on article 2.6 of the FIS Anti-Doping Rules, which addresses the possession of “prohibited substances” or “prohibited methods.” According to...

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Jauhojaervi Still Waiting for Cash After Dementiev DQ
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Jauhojaervi Still Waiting for Cash After Dementiev DQ

Nathaniel HerzOctober 27, 2010

Hidden away 50 pages into the International Ski Federation’s (FIS’s) anti-doping rules is a policy that has received little publicity in the charged debate surrounding performance-enhancing drug use. “As a condition of regaining eligibility after being found to have committed an anti-doping rule violation,” it reads, “[an] Athlete must first repay all prize money forfeited.” After the 2009 Tour de Ski, Finland’s Sami Jauhojaervi stood to benefit from the application of that rule. In that race,...

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