LAUSANNE - Violinist Vanessa Mae has appealed a four-year ban from ski competitions to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) after being found guilty of manipulating results in order to qualify for the Olympics. Investigators from the International Ski Federation (FIS) last month banned 36-year-old Vanessa Vanakorn, known as Vanessa Mae, after it was found that results were manipulated during trials in Slovenia to enable her to compete at the Sochi Games. CAS confirmed on Thursday they had received an appeal from Mae. "Two arbitration procedures have been opened and are being conducted in accordance with the Code of Sports-related Arbitration," CAS said in a statement. "I expected to be last but at the end of the day the Olympics is a great opportunity," she said at the time.