Pechstein applied for unpaid leave in order to be able to continue her training, which was denied.

Pechstein is the first female Winter Olympian to win medals in five consecutive Olympics ( 1992 – 2006 ), and she won the gold medal in the women's 5, 000 meter race in three consecutive Olympics ( 1994 – 2002 ), and the silver medal in the fourth ( 2006 ).

Pechstein attempted to use this new evidence in her appeal before the Federal Supreme Court of Switzerland.

Forst lies in the Mittelhaardt-Deutsche Weinstraße Region and is famous for its wineries, above all for Forster Ungeheuer, Forster Kirchenstück and Pechstein.

The German speed skater and five-fold Olympic gold medalist Claudia Pechstein was banned for two years in 2009 for alleged blood doping, based on irregular levels of reticulocytes in her blood ; these levels were always highest during competitions.

As reported by Olympic news outlet Around the Rings, Pechstein is aiming for an Olympic return, this time as a cyclist.

After the World Championships in Norway in February 2009, the International Skating Union accused Pechstein of blood doping and banned her from all competitions for two years.

The court affirmed the ban in November 2009, finding no evidence for an inherited condition in the expert testimony provided by Pechstein.

In November 2009 CAS decided its first case on athlete biological passports, when it upheld the two year suspension of skater Claudia Pechstein.

After a boxing-match against Regina Halmich in 2001 ( rematch 2007 ) and a speed skating race against Claudia Pechstein in 2002, he also created several other celebrity sports events that are produced regularly, including TV total Turmspringen ( high diving ) and TV total Stock Car Crash Challenge ( stock car racing ).

The painter Max Pechstein and other expressionists frequented the place.

It also has paintings by these European painters: Nardo di Cione, Francesco Botticini, Jan Swart Van Groningen, Ferdinand Bol, Jan Goyen, Hendrick Van Vliet, Franz Von Lenbach (" Bavarian Girl "), Ferdinand Waldmüller (" Interruption "), Carl Spitzweg, Christian Bokelman (" Broken Bank "), Bougereau, Gerome (" 2 Majesties "), Claude Monet (" Waterloo Bridge, Sunset Effect "), Gustave Caillebotte, Camille Pissarro, Alfred Kowalski (" Winter in Russia "), Jules Bastien-Lepage's " The Wood Gatherer ", and Max Pechstein.

He collected works by French and German Expressionist artists, from groups including Die Brücke and Der Blaue Reiter, such as Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Max Pechstein, Emil Nolde, Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Franz Marc, Gabriele Münter, Alexej von Jawlensky, and Max Beckmann.

At one time or another in those early years of the 20th century, Guillaume Apollinaire, Alexander Archipenko, Joseph Csaky, Alexandre Altmann, Ossip Zadkine, Moise Kisling, Marc Chagall, Max Pechstein, Nina Hamnett, Fernand Léger, Jacques Lipchitz, Pinchus Kremegne, Max Jacob, Blaise Cendrars, Chaim Soutine, Robert Delaunay, Amedeo Modigliani, Constantin Brâncuşi, Amshey Nurenberg, Diego Rivera, Marevna, Luigi Guardigli and others, called the place home or frequented it.

* December 31-Max Pechstein, painter ( d. 1955 )

Artists such as Max Pechstein, Alfred Lichtwark, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, and Alfred Partikel visited Nidden.

His work of this period was influenced by the art of Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele and then by Max Pechstein, Heinrich Campendonck, Edvard Munch, Henry Moore and Pablo Picasso.

Later members were Emil Nolde, Max Pechstein and Otto Mueller.

** Ladies'all-round: Claudia Pechstein ( Germany ) with 163. 159 points

* June 29-Max Pechstein, German Expressionist artist ( b. 1881 )

The group was led by Max Pechstein and César Klein.

The group was initially founded mainly by painters Max Pechstein, Georg Tappert, César Klein, Moriz Melzer and Heinrich Richter.

Claudia Pechstein ( born 22 February 1972 ) is a German speed skater.

In the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy, Pechstein also won a gold medal in the women's team pursuit.

Claudia Pechstein was born in East Berlin.

Pechstein is a sergeant in the German Federal Police and trains at the force's sports training centre at Bad Endorf.

In February 2010, Pechstein filed a criminal complaint in Switzerland against the International Skating Union, alleging trial fraud.

His wife, Katie, `` as gay as a lark and as lively as a gazelle '', -- she was then seventy-six, -- had `` a sense of humour that has been denied S.K., but neither has any aesthetic perceptions.

There, to the Evening Post, she emphatically denied the divorce rumors and explained that she had stayed behind because of the schooling of their son, which henceforth would be strictly American.

and she had an appetite for learning that could not be denied.

" Hill denied the accusations in an op-ed in the New York Times saying she would not " stand by silently and allow Thomas, in his anger, to reinvent me ".

Flowers at first denied that she had an affair with Clinton, but later changed her story.

Having witnessed the events firsthand, she was later infuriated that she was consistently denied the chance to speak in Parliament about the day, although parliamentary convention decreed that any MP witnessing an incident under discussion would be granted an opportunity to speak about it in the House.

Jasmuheen has denied any involvement with the three deaths and claims she cannot be held responsible for the actions of her followers.

In a storyline that begins prior to the timeline of the movie, Jade Fox is denied entry to the Wudang monastery because she is a woman.

Michael Lehmann, the man behind the original film, however, has denied that a sequel's development, saying " Winona's been talking about this for years — she brings it up every once in a while and Dan Waters and I will joke about it, but as far as I know there's no script and no plans to do the sequel.

In interviews for the 1993 film The Wonderful, Horrible Life of Leni Riefenstahl, Riefenstahl adamantly denied any deliberate attempt to create pro-Nazi propaganda and said she was disgusted that Triumph of the Will was used in such a way.

And although Gloria Swanson worked for Sennett in 1916 and was photographed in a bathing suit, she was also a star and " vehemently denied " being one of the bathing beauties.

While it is possible she was an idealized or pseudonymous character – particularly since the name " Laura " has a linguistic connection to the poetic " laurels " Petrarch coveted – Petrarch himself always denied it.

However, she denied that she was fifteen years old when it began, saying that they met when she was sixteen and the affair only became sexual " several years later ".

After she betrays him, he seeks to take his life, but denied that opportunity he tackles her into Horath's vortex and they are both lost to it.

The debate over whether she is an icon of female empowerment or a vessel for male titillation has existed for as long as she has, but the huge effect she has had on both gaming and popular culture in general cannot be denied.

During her questioning, Catherine first denied everything but eventually she was broken down and told of her infidelity and her pre-nuptial relations with other men.

The case involved Adele Sherbert, who was denied unemployment benefits by South Carolina because she refused to work on Saturdays, something forbidden by her Seventh-day Adventist faith.

Despite her years of service, she had never received a regular salary and was for years denied compensation.

Although she was quoted by a 1997 Time magazine article as saying she was germophobic, Diaz specifically denied this on the June 26, 2009, edition of Real Time with Bill Maher, saying that a small comment she made 12 years earlier regarding public bathroom doorknobs was distorted out of proportion.