LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — The authority of the highest court in global sports will be at stake Tuesday when a potentially landmark verdict is announced in Germany.
The Court of Arbitration for Sport is not even a formal party in the quest by five-time Olympic speedskating champion Claudia Pechstein to get 4.4 million euros ($5 million) in compensation from the International Skating Union, which banned her in 2009 for blood doping. She denied doping and claimed her irregular blood values were due to an inherited condition
Still, the ruling by German federal judges could affect the position of CAS as world sport's recognized authority to judge appeals, arbitration cases and contract disputes.