One of the attorneys chosen to settle disputes during next week's Olympic Winter Games also has cyclist Tyler Hamilton's case on her docket.
Maidie E. Oliveau is an LA sports marketing attorney and member of the Court of Arbitration for Sport. A nine-member ad hoc division of CAS will meet in Torino to quickly settle disputes that arise concerning drug testing, eligibility and judging.
She was selected by the Swiss-based International Council for the Arbitration for Sport to sit on the CAS in 1997 and was reappointed in 2002.
Oliveau is member of the panel that met in early January in Denver to hear Hamilton's appeal of his two-year suspension from pro cycling because of blood doping charges.
Hamilton was busted during the Vuelta a Espana in 2004 while riding on the Phonak team. Accused of using another person's red blood cells to boost his performance, Hamilton charged that the test is unreliable.
When the Hamilton case is settled will be anyone guess. If Oliveau and others want to clear their desks before pressing cases crop up during the Olympics, maybe a decision will be soon.
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