Claudia Pechstein targets 10th Olympic medal

German speed skater Claudia Pechstein has insisted that she is determined to win a medal at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi.

The 41-year-old missed the Vancouver Games four years ago because of a contested doping suspension imposed on her due to suspicious blood levels but without a positive test.

"Without evidence. Without a positive doping test," the Star Tribune quotes her as saying. "That still makes me angry.

"I vowed that I would be in Sochi, bent on winning my 10th Olympic medal."

Pechstein has won five Olympic gold medals, two silver and as many bronze.