Lausanne, Switzerland - Five-time Olympic speed skating champion Claudia Pechstein will hear the outcome of an appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) against a ban imposed for blood doping on November 25, sport's highest tribunal announced Thursday.

A decision was originally expected this week and the deferral means Pechstein can not compete in this weekend's World Cup event in Hamar, Norway.

Lausanne, Switzerland  - Five-time Olympic speed skating champion Claudia Pechstein will have to wait until next month to hear the outcome of an appeal hearing on a ban imposed for blood doping.

The Court of Arbitration for Sport said after a two-day hearing before a three-strong panel of arbitrators in Lausanne that a final decision on the case was not expected before November 10.

Berlin - Five-time Olympic speed skating champion Claudia Pechstein will be allowed to train fully while she fights a two-year ban imposed for blood doping, the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) ruled on Friday.

The court, based in Lausanne, Switzerland, said the 37-year-old German can train pending a decision on her appeal to the court against the ban, but cannot take part in competition.

Pechstein welcomed the decision, saying: "Looking ahead to the Olympic Games (in Vancouver in February) this will make a lot of things easier."

Berlin - Five-time Olympic speed skating champion Claudia Pechstein is to use what she believes are several procedural errors by the ruling body ISU in an attempt to overturn a two-year ban handed down for doping.

The 37-year-old German has protested her innocence and told a press conference Thursday in Berlin that eight of the 20 blood test results used by the ISU were not identical with that of the athlete.