Alpine skiing-Violinist Mae paid defamation damages by FIS (Reuters)
Pop violinist Vanessa Mae has been awarded damages by the International Ski Federation (FIS) after it wrongly accused her of manipulating race results in order to qualify for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi. Mae, initially handed a four-year ban by the sport’s governing body, took her case to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) which cleared her of fixing races. In a statement on Wednesday, FIS said it had settled a claim for defamation by British citizen Mae, who competed under her father’s name Vanakorn for his native Thailand in Sochi, finishing 67th and last in the giant slalom.