21.   On Wednesday, German swimming federation president Ruediger Tretow said that FINA had failed to appear at the Supreme Court hearing and the case had been adjourned until Thursday.

22.   She was banned by the German federation for a year and the International Amateur Athletic Federation added two years to the suspension.

23.   The court ruled Baumann had been under the jurisprudence of the IAAF, because he had a signed a document recognizing that the German federation was under IAAF rules.

24.   The club claimed German federation president Wolfgang Weisbrodt made negative remarks about Leipold before he was suspended in Germany, a ban later overturned.

25.   The German speedskating federation said the two coaches under its jurisdiction denied the allegations and that the federation stood behind them.

26.   The IAAF arbitration panel ruled the German federation had made a mistake when it overturned the ban.

27.   The German federation said it had not received notification of the sanctions.

28.   The German federation vetoed the race, but the organizers, a marketing agency supported by major ski sponsors, want to go ahead anyway.

29.   The German federation gave her a one-year ban, and the IAAF extended it by two years.

30.   The German federation had warned the runners they could face suspensions if they competed against Baumann, but top officials played down the likelihoood of such action.