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Speed skating Olympic champion Claudia Pechstein will have a chance to claim damages and compensation for her two-year doping ban after all, Germany’s federal constitutional court said Tuesday in overturning a 2016 supreme court ruling. Pechstein, 50, can therefore continue her legal proceedings seeking millions of euros in compensation against the skating governing body ISU in a Munich regional court, with the outcome open. The five-time Olympic champion Pechstein was given a two-year ban by the ISU in February 2009 due to suspicious blood values. Pechstein denied doping and later an inherite…