Andrus Veerpalu, two-time Olympic cross-country skiing champion, is appealing his case today at the Court of Arbitration for Sports in Lausanne, Switzerland, after having been issued a three-year competition ban for a positive doping test.
In mid-February of last year the Anti-Doping Agency had established a higher-than-permitted level of growth hormone in Veerpalu’s body and the positive test results were confirmed in a B-sample almost two months later, Eesti Päevaleht reported....