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Estonia’s Andrus Veerpalu Guilty of Supporting Doping: Banned Two Years by FIS
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Estonia’s Andrus Veerpalu Guilty of Supporting Doping: Banned Two Years by FIS

Jason AlbertApril 15, 2021

  On April 14, the International Ski Federation (FIS) announced former Estonian cross-country skier Andrus Veerpalu was found guilty by the CAS Anti-Doping Division. Veerpalu was involved with “Operation Aderlass”, a blood doping scheme run by Dr. Marc Schmidt in Germany. Veerpalu’s penalty is a two-year ban from FIS sanctioned events ending on March 17, 2023. Now retired from skiing, the fifty-year-old Veerpalu in recent years has served as a coach for team “Haanja” in Estonia....

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Estonia’s Tammjärv Confesses to Doping in Press Conference; Veerpalu Admits Wrongdoing
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Estonia’s Tammjärv Confesses to Doping in Press Conference; Veerpalu Admits Wrongdoing

Jason AlbertMarch 4, 2019

As the Seefeld World Championships faded as of Sunday with the conclusion of the men’s 50-kilometer freestyle, here are some news gaps related to the recent arrest last week of five cross-country skiers. Here are the basics. Several cross-country athletes were arrested in Seefeld as part of a German and Austrian effort to curb doping in sport. Austrian athletes Dominik Baldauf and Maz Hauke, Kazakhstan’s Alexey Poltoranin, and Estonia’s Karel Tammjärv and Andreas Veerpalu were...

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How WADA Dropped the Ball on the Veerpalu Doping Case
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How WADA Dropped the Ball on the Veerpalu Doping Case

Chelsea LittleMarch 27, 20138

When Andrus Veerpalu tested positive for recombinant human grown hormone in both his A and B samples in the winter of 2011, FIS used a peer-reviewed, reliable test to detect the abnormalities and seemed to have a slam-dunk case. In a highly unusual appeals case that surprised scientists and anti-doping administrators alike, the Court of Arbitration for Sport found that WADA had made missteps in setting detection limits. Here's how Veerpalu won a case even though CAS was sure he was guilty.

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Court of Arbitration for Sport Upholds Veerpalu Appeal, Annuls Doping Suspension
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Court of Arbitration for Sport Upholds Veerpalu Appeal, Annuls Doping Suspension

Nathaniel HerzMarch 26, 20131

After nine months of deliberation, the Court of Arbitration for Sport announced on Tuesday that it decided to uphold Estonian cross-country skier Andrus Veerpalu's appeal and overturned the three-year competition ban the International Ski Federation originally imposed on him in August of 2011 for testing positive for human growth hormone. The Panel cited lack of confidence in FIS's standard of proof.

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We Have to Go With the Times: Alaver on Estonian Skiing, Veerpalu’s Positive
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We Have to Go With the Times: Alaver on Estonian Skiing, Veerpalu’s Positive

Nathaniel HerzJune 29, 2012

Mati Alaver is a legend in Estonia. Alaver, 58, is credited with building his country’s cross-country ski program from scratch following Estonia’s independence in 1991. Over the last two decades, its athletes have won more than 15 major medals at World Championships and Olympic Games—not bad for a country with a population of 1.3 million. Alaver is known not just as a knowledgeable and successful coach, but also as a pitchman who found the sponsor...

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Appeal Decision Will Likely Put Veerpalu Case to Rest
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Appeal Decision Will Likely Put Veerpalu Case to Rest

Audrey ManganJune 12, 2012

The saga of Estonian Andrus Veerpalu’s doping trial has dragged on for well over a year, but with a final ruling in his appeal expected soon after the conclusion of the trial this week at the Court of Arbitration for Sport in Lausane, Switzerland, Veerpalu may have finally run out options. According to Aivar Pilv, Veerpalu’s defense attorney, their appeal claims that FIS’s testing methods for doping are faulty. The appeal proceedings began on Monday...

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Doping Ban Begins Again for Veerpalu
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Doping Ban Begins Again for Veerpalu

Audrey ManganJune 5, 20121

The International Ski Federation (FIS) Doping Panel has ruled that the competition ban on Estonia’s Andrus Veerpalu will have to start from scratch. The three-year doping ban was originally set to end the day the 2014 Olympic Games concluded, but because he violated its terms this winter by testing skis for the Estonian team at the Otepää World Cup this January, the ban’s start date has been reset to January 21, 2012. The World Anti-Doping Agency...

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“Not Successful” in Oslo, Bauer Refocuses on Tour de Ski, Overall World Cup for 2012

Chelsea LittleNovember 8, 2011

At the age of 34, Lukas Bauer of has already done pretty much everything a skier can hope for. At the 2006 Olympics in Torino, he won silver in the 15 k classic. In Vancouver four years later, Bauer took home bronze in both the 15 k skate and the relay. He owns a silver medal from 2009 World Championships in the 15 k classic, and he has twice won the Tour de Ski; in...

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Team 15: Estonia

Kieran JonesNovember 4, 2011

an injury forced him to sit out of his final World Championships, and call it a career. The Estonian strong-man was feted, celebrated, patted on the back, and given rounds of applause – until he The lawyers are still battling it out) and opted to retire before World Championships. This created  a not-insignificant amount of outrage both pro and con-Veerpalu, but Odd-Bjorn Hjelmset demand more. What You Need To Know for This Season The hurricane...

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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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Russian Sprint Coach Poised to Take Leadership Position
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Russian Sprint Coach Poised to Take Leadership Position

Audrey ManganSeptember 22, 2011

Earlier this month, the Russian Ski Federation made public that current men’s sprint team coach, Yuri Kaminsky, was poised to become the next head coach of the entire Russian National Team. With the Sochi Olympics coming up in 2014, the depth of Russia’s 100-plus athlete program, and the team’s fight to clean up its skiers and its image, much depends on the appointment. If Kaminsky and the Federation can come to an agreement on the...

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The Veerpalu Saga Ends (For Now)

JoranSeptember 2, 2011

With the recent news that Andrus Veerpalu’s doping suspension has been made official, a sad story sort of ends. I’m always glad to see doping rules enforced, but it’s also not the way I want to hear about my favorite sport in the news. Over the years, Veerpalu has raced against many people: Name Number [...] Related posts:

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FIS Reaches Decision; Veerpalu’s Positive Test Stands

Audrey ManganAugust 25, 20111

The International Ski Federation (FIS) Doping Panel came to a final decision on Monday in Andrus Veerpalu’s case. The Estonian champion’s positive drug test from this winter, which came just before World Championships in Oslo and his abrupt retirement, still stands. His two-year ban from competition was extended to three; the end of the sentence in 2014 falls precisely on the closing ceremonies in Sochi. In February, the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) found Veerpalu to...

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Starting from Nothing: Estonian Skiing, Past, Present, and Future
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Starting from Nothing: Estonian Skiing, Past, Present, and Future

Nathaniel HerzAugust 11, 20112

Before flying to Estonia last January, I didn’t know much about that nation’s cross-country skiers aside from their names—and their medal records. Jaak Mae, Andrus Veerpalu, and Kristina Smigun-Vaehi—between the three of them, seven Olympic and 10 World Championship medals. Not a bad record for a country with a population of 1.3 million, or the same as the state of Maine. But while Scandinavian stars like Petter Northug and Marit Björgen blend a certain appeal,...

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Citing Anonymous Sources, Newspaper Reports Veerpalu Positive

Nathaniel HerzApril 3, 20111

Citing an anonymous source, Postimees, Estonia’s largest newspaper is reporting that Andrus Veerpalu, the recently-retired Olympic and world champion medalist, has tested positive for doping. In an article posted earlier this week, Postimees said that an A-sample taken from Veerpalu in January had failed an anti-doping control, but that the opening of his B-sample, which is used for confirmation, has not yet occurred. The details of the report are sketchy, though. No sources are named,...

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Roenning Takes Otepaa 15 K; Charging Veerpalu Can’t Crack Podium
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Roenning Takes Otepaa 15 K; Charging Veerpalu Can’t Crack Podium

Nathaniel HerzJanuary 22, 2011

Heading into Saturday’s 15 k classic race, it had been more than four years since Eldar Roenning won a World Cup distance race. But even before he left the starting gate in Otepaa, Estonia, the Norwegian knew that it was going to be a solid day. “I had a good feeling—I was feeling that I was good enough for the podium,” he said. Roenning wasn’t just good enough for the podium—he was good enough for...

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