The 37-year-old competed for Thailand at the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics using her father's surname Vanakorn, but it was then alleged that the qualification events she used to earn her spot had been rigged.

The FIS claimed Mae helped "manipulate" races in Slovenia's Krvavcu resort, saying they were organised by her management company and the Thailand Olympic Committee in order for her to meet the criteria for Sochi.

Slovenia's Ski Federation banned four of its officials in the aftermath, but Mae took her case to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) who cleared her of breaching FIS rules on betting and corruption and quashed her ban in June.

The CAS ruled that they could not find to "its comfortable satisfaction evidence of any manipulation" by Mae but did not overturn her disqualification from Sochi, where she finished last out of the 67 competitors who finished in the giant slalom.

In an interview with German magazine Der Spiegel, Mae has now expressed anger at the situation.

"The FIS labelled me a cheater," she said.

"It mocked me.

"The FIS didn‘t expect me to fight back.

"And it became really ugly when it became clear that I would go before the CAS."

In not ruling out legal action, Mae said that her case had cost roughly $200,000 (£135,000/€184,000).

The FIS said they have been advised not to comment. 

Mae, who was born in Singapore but has British nationality, has always been better known as a violinist than a skier having sold millions of records worldwide.