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As a result of various requests regarding the proceedings before the Cologne Regional Court in case of David Berling vs. International Paralympic Committee, we have compiled the following information about the procedure and classification in paralympic sport. Who are the parties The plaintiff is a US citizen who originally studied finance and economics and holds a...Read More

Classification rules are legally abusive in an essential point. The International Olympic Committee has lost the lawsuit LG Cologne 33 O 187/23, judgment of 12 September 2024, against the US American David Berling, represented by WIESCHEMANN Rechtsanwälte. The ruling had been announced at the oral hearing on 4 July 2024. The IPC was concerned that...Read More

Brenna Huckaby and Cecile Hernandez retain their medals won at the Beijing 2022 Paralympic Games. Brenna Huckaby (USA) and Cecile Hernandez (FRA) won their participation in the Beijing 2022 Paralympic Winter Games in court through injunctions and each won gold medals. If the International Paralympic Committee IPC had had its way, they would not have...Read More

The Regional Court of Cologne (33 O 59/22) today issued an interim injunction ordering the International Paralympic Committee to admit French para snowboarder Cecile Hernandez Cervellon to the women's banked slalom and cross slalom competitions in Beijing in the LL-2 classRead More

In the proceeding VI-6 W 1/22 [Kart] Brenna Huckaby v. International Paralympics Committee eV, the Düsseldorf Higher Regional Court served the reasons for the judgment of 20 January 2022 on the parties on 31 January 2022. The IPC was ordered in the proceedings for an interim injunction to allow Brenna Huckaby to take part in...Read More

Snowboarder wins participation in the Paralympic Winter Games in Beijing After three hours of oral proceedings, the Düsseldorf Higher Regional Court (OLG), Cartel Senate, ( VI-6 W 1/22 (Kart)) yesterday ordered the Bonn-based International Paralympic Committee to admit Brenna Huckaby to the women’s banked slalom and cross slalom competitions in Beijing in the LL-2 class,...Read More

Elite Paralympic Snowboard demands IPC admission of Brenna Huckaby (USA) and Cécile Hernandez (France) to the Beijing 2022 Paralympic Winter Games. The weekend before the International Day of People with Disabilities, the elite of female snowboarders with impairments were gathered in Landgraaf (NL) for the training camp and the first races. Among them: Brenna Huckaby...Read More

Statement regarding WADA CRC recommendation with respect to RUSADAand Russian doping crisis The WADA Executive Committee will decide on December 9, 2019, exactly three years to the day after Prof. Richard McLaren presented the second part of his report on widespread doping in Russia, whether it will follow the recommendation of the WADA Compliance Review...Read More

After the conviction of Alberto Salazar, the head of the Nike Oregon Project, there is hardly a report in media that doesn’t explicitly make a connection to famous athletes of a country. In Germany Konstanze Klosterhalfen, who has only been training in Oregon since the beginning of this year, is said to be “in the...Read More

ATHLETICS The self-marketing of athletes is not as developed in athletics as it is in football, for example. But it is precisely from this that athletics can learn and avoid conflicts. WIESCHEMANN Attorneys at Law have been able to resolve a conflict between NIKE, PUMA and TV Wattenscheid at least temporarily. For the athlete taking...Read More

The winner of the gold medal in 50 km cross-country skiing at the Olympic Games in Sochi 2014, Alexander Legkov, is finally cleared of the accusation of doping in Sochi 2014. The Swiss Federal Supreme Court rejects the appeal of the International Olympic Committee against the decision of the International Court of Sport CAS of...Read More

Anyone who leaves the road to work to check the condition of the road for slipperiness is not covered by statutory accident insurance. Thus the 2nd Senate of the Federal Social Court (BSG) ruled on 23.01.2018 – B 2 U 3/16 R – (Reference: The Social Jurisdiction 11/18 p. 705 ff.) Especially in the cold...Read More

Cristina Iovu , multiple EM gold medal winner 2012 and bronze medal winner in Olympic Games London 2012 in weightlifting in class up to 53 kg will be entitled to start again in five days.She was deprived of her IOC bronze medal in 2016 after a positive re-test of her doping test. Since then she has...Read More

IOC Executive Committee apparently intends to appeal the award of the CAS by which 28 Russian athletes were acquitted to the Swiss Federal Supreme Court. It would be a good opportunity to explain how and why Prof. McLaren, WADA and IOC concealed exculpatory evidence so far. If Prof. McLaren, WADA and IOC would have disclosed...Read More

Court of Arbitration for Sport issued today as first of the Sochi 2014 cases the reasoned award in case Alexander Legkov v. International Olympic Committee (IOC) CAS 2017/A/5379 http://www.tas-cas.org/fileadmin/user_upload/Award__5379__internet.pdf It is a clear defeat for IOC as well as Prof. McLaren and Wada. Prof. McLaren, WADA and IOC influenced if not even manipulated the assessment of...Read More

Download German version: Open letter to the Olympic athletes Download German version: Open letter to Olympians Please note in the Appendix an open letter to the participants of the Olympic Games 2018 in Pyeongchang, in which we describe Why the results are irregular and no one can enjoy itWhy the disciplinary procedures against Russian athletes...Read More

Alexander Legkovs medals are clean. CAS raises life-long barrier of gold medaillengewinners in 50 km of cross-country skiing from Sochi 2014. A total of 28 Russian athletes have succeeded. Alexander Legkov is one of the 39 athletes who sued the Court of Arbitration for Sport in Lausanne for the life-long ban imposed on them by...Read More

It took me a long time to find words to describe what I feel. A few days ago, the IOC Oswald Disciplinary Commission decided to take away my medals, which I had won in Sochi 2014, and to impose on me and my teammate Evgeniy Belov a lifelong ban from the Olympic Games. The last...Read More

The disciplinary commission of the IOC, Oswald Commission, after the hearing on Monday 30 October 2017, the two Russian cross-country skiers Alexander Legkov and Evgeniy Belov found guilty of having committed an anti doping rule Violation at the Olympic Games Sochi 2014 Have. The results of both are to be annulled, they should not be...Read More

The previous understanding of the so-called Duchess-list is a legend Evgeniy below and Alexander Legkow relieved. The system that Richard McLaren described in his report as an independent person IP is unprecedented. It therefore requires all parties to have an unprecedented approach to assessing the evidence and conclusions of the IP report and the complementary...Read More

The Oswald Commission, which was set up by the International Olympic Committee IOC in connection with the doping system described by Prof. McLaren at the Olympic Games Sochi 2014 in Russia, is part of the result management against the individual athletes, presented on Friday evening their investigation results to he two country Alexander Legkov and...Read More

WIESCHEMANN · Lawyers publishes Court of Arbitration for Sport award CAS 2017/A/4968 Legkov v. International Ski Federation (FIS) Through earlier media releases by FIS & IOC and it’s representatives the impression arose in public that the report of Prof. McLaren (McLaren report) justifies a “strong suspicion” that the clients of WIESCHEMANN | Lawyers Alexander Legkov...Read More

CAS submits explanatory statement on case Alexander LEGKOV and Evgeniy Belov v. FIS. WIESCHEMANN · Lawyers see essentially confirmed. Athletes will be able to start after 31.10.2017. McLaren report for itself does not serve as evidence of a doping violation of an individual athlete Panel considers it possible that after further investigations are completed the...Read More

The Bochum law firm specializing in business law WIESCHEMANN | Lawyers have brought an action against Mazda Motors (Germany) GmbH after the company has terminated all service partner contracts in Germany for the 31.12.2018. Mazda maintains a network of approximately 690 service partners in Germany. Of these, approximately 240 locations have only one service partner...Read More

After the hearing of May 15, Court of Arbitration for Sport in Lausanne issued today the Operative Part of Arbitral Award without reasoning and set a deadline for provisional suspension of Alexander Legkov and Evgeniy Belov until 31.10.2017, after which such suspension shall lapse in absence of any-doping rule violation sanction having been assessed against...Read More

Already on Monday we filed an appeal to Court of Arbitration for Sport in Lausanne for Alexander LEGKOV and requested to proceed in expedited manner. The aim is still the cancellation of the provisional suspension. Yesterday we submitted detailed reasons. The appeal for Evgeniy Belov will follow. In addition to the deficiencies of the legal...Read More

We were just informed that the FIS Doping Penal under its chairman Patrick Smith uphold today the provisional suspension imposed on December 22, 2016 although one of the three members of the panel does not share the opinion of the panel and wished to have his dissenting opinion included in the decision: Alexander LEGKOV and...Read More

Legkov & Belov | FIS schedules hearing | Doubt about evidential value of documents to which the McLaren Report refersThe chairman of the FIS Doping Panel has set the date for the hearing on the request of the two athletes Alexander Legkov and Evgeniy Belov to lift the provisional suspension on Friday 13.1.2017, 2 pm....Read More

The FIS doping Panel on 30.12.2016 has 15 minutes before the closing date for the tour of the ski communicated that it wants to decide on the requests from Alexander Legkov and Evgeniyi Belov, to lift the provisional suspension, after careful analysis of both, our application and the additional justifications in several written pleadings, as...Read More

Media release Alexander LEGKOV and Evgeniy BELOV, RUS CC,. Regarding the provisional suspension of Russian participants at the Winter Olympics in Sochi, 2014.provisional suspension Russian participants in the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics. Bochum | Moscow 27 December 2016 The International Olympic Committee IOC briefed on the 22.12.2016 the International Ski Federation FIS, that it claimed in connection with violations...Read More