In Sochi the musician raced for Thailand as Vanessa Vanakorn, using the last name of her Thai father. The FIS said that without the manipulation she “would not have achieved the necessary FIS point performance level to be eligible to participate in the Olympic Winter Games”. The violinist Vanessa-Mae, who made her Olympic debut in Sochi this year at the age of 35, has been banned from competitive skiing for four years for fixing races.Īn International Ski Federation hearing panel “found to its comfortable satisfaction that the results of the four ladies’ giant slalom races that took place on 18 and 19 January at Krvavec were manipulated”.
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