Czech speed skater stands to receive Olympic bronze if German racer disqualified

The Czech speed skater Martina Sáblíková could receive a belated medal from the 2006Winter Olympics. The newspaper Die Welt reported that the International Olympic Committee might strip Germany’s Claudia Pechstein of her bronze medal; she is currently serving a ban for drug taking and the head of the IOC Jacques Rogge told Die Welt that her past would also be examined more closely. As Sáblíková came fourth in the 5000 m in Turin, she would receive the bronze medal handed to Pechstein if the German were retroactively disqualified.

Author: Ian Willoughby