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Johaug, who won the World Cup in 2014 and 2016 and has also
won seven world championship titles and three Olympic medals,
tested positive for the banned anabolic steroid clostebol while
training in Italy last September.
The 28-year-old said she tested positive after using a cream to
treat her sunburned lips bought by her doctor at an Italian
pharmacy without knowing it contained the substance.
Her 13-month ban was handed down by the Norwegian Olympic
Committee last month. However, FIS said the ban was on "the low
end of the range of reasonable sanctions" and that it had filed
an appeal at the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS).
FIS said that Johaug "failed to read the doping warning label
printed in red on the package despite the fact that the
medication was unknown to her and was purchased in a foreign
country".
(Writing by Brian Homewood; Editing by John O'Brien)
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