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Olympic Figure Skating News Court case too late to stop German coach from working Olympics
BERLIN (AP) -- A court case against a figure skating coach accused of having ties to the former East German secret police won't prevent him from working this weekend's Olympics pairs competition.
A trial date for Ingo Steuer is expected to be set next week -- after the pairs competition wraps up Monday, a Berlin court told The Associated Press on Friday. Steuer coaches skaters Aliona Savchenko and Robin Szolkowy, runners-up at the European Championships.
Steuer won a court injunction that stopped Germany's Olympic Committee from dropping him from the Turin-bound team because of his alleged ties to the Stasi, East Germany's secret police. He has repeatedly claimed his innocence.
Although the committee said it can't stop Steuer from coaching this weekend, it appealed the court injunction and vowed to follow through.
"It's very simple. He filed a lawsuit against us claiming his right to be nominated. What we are saying is no nomination," lawyer Igor Ruecker said. "In a nutshell, for the Olympic committee it's about him not being a member of the team. We have never attempted to stop him from coaching this weekend."
An initial appeal by the Olympic committee was struck down Thursday as the court ruled the organization failed to use proper legal procedures in dropping Steuer.
An independent panel said Steuer -- a 1998 Olympic bronze medal winner -- was an informer for the Stasi from 1985 to 1989, a development that emerged from the biggest probe into links between the secret police and athletes and sports officials since German unification in 1990.
Numerous sports figures from the former East Germany have been forced to resign after secret police ties have surfaced since the country reunited with West Germany.
The Stasi used an elaborate network of informers to spy on citizens of the former East Germany, including star athletes such as two-time Olympic figure skating champion Katarina Witt.
"He doesn't have any skeletons in his closet," Witt said in defense of Steuer. "He was young and naive."
After Germany's Olympic Committee lost the first appeal, IOC president Jacques Rogge said he expected the body to comply with the decision.
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