The International Ski Federation banned three Austrian cross-country skiers for two years Thursday for their role in the doping scandal at the 2006 Olympics in Turin, Italy.

Martin Tauber, Johannes Eder and Roland Diethart were suspended and deprived of all their results and prize money won since Feb. 16, 2006.

In April 2007, the International Olympic Committee gave lifetime Olympic bans to the three skiers and to Jurgen Pinter, who was not fined by the ski federation on Thursday, as well as to biathletes Wolfgang Perner and Wolfgang Rottmann.

Perner and Rottmann, who retired from their sport immediately after the Olympics, later got lifetime bans from the Austrian Ski Federation.

Within the next three weeks, the athletes can appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport to have their ski federation bans overturned. They have already appealed to the international sports court to have their Olympic bans overturned.

Italian police raided the Austrian cross-country and biathlon team lodgings during the Turin Games, seizing a large amount of doping products and equipment.

The raid triggered an investigation that led the IOC to impose the lifetime bans against the six athletes involved in the scandal.

The IOC also fined the Austrian Olympic Committee $1 million US for failing to prevent the blood-doping violations.