However, the arbitration court ruling did not necessarily settle the matter for good.
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That means the debate over the definition of the IAAF’s “neutral athlete” will continue between those who consider it to be a competitor in white kit, under an International Olympic Committee flag, and those who still believe they can be part of a Russian delegation.
The ban on Russia’s track and field athletes from the Rio Games will scare drug cheats and help cleaning up the sport, Jamaica’s six-time Olympic gold medallist Usain Bolt has said.
The long jumper Darya Klishina and the whistleblower Yulia Stepanova, who train in the United States, will likely be the only Russian track and field athletes at the Games.
IAAF President Sebastian Coe, who has declared the ban is crucial to protecting the integrity of the competition, said it was “not a day for triumphant statements”.
The IPC decried a “prevailing doping culture endemic within Russian sport at the very highest levels” and said the country’s Paralympic body “appears unable or unwilling to ensure compliance with and the enforcement” of anti-doping measures. “It is our federation’s instinctive desire to include, not exclude”.
“There is no place and can never be a place for any doping in sports”, the Russian president said, telling Russia’s Olympic Committee to work closely with the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA).
Russia’s Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko called the CAS decision “politicised” and illegal.
“In my view, it’s a subjective decision, somewhat political and one with no legal basis”, he told the TASS news agency.
In its ruling, the Court of Arbitration for Sport found that track and field’s world governing body, the IAAF, had properly applied its own rules in keeping the Russians out of the games that begin August 5.
“We will now have to study and analyze the full decision”, the International Olympic Committee said.
Leaders from 14 anti-doping agencies across the globe are urging the International Olympic Committee to ban the entire Russian team from the games.
The IOC has appeared to back the principle that global sporting federations could clear individual athletes in case of a blanket ban but with just two weeks to go until Rio, time is slipping away.
Russian Federation will find out in two weeks whether it is to be banned completely from the Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro after officials opened proceedings against the country on Friday following revelations of doping cover-ups. The IOC’s executive board is due to convene again on Sunday.
WADA is a statement said, “It is now up to other global federations to consider their responsibilities under the World Anti-Doping Code as it relates to their Russian national federations and up to the worldwide Olympic Committee… to consider its responsibilities under the Olympic Charter”.
The IOC has appeared to back the principle that worldwide sporting federations could clear individual athletes in case of a blanket ban but with just two weeks to go until Rio time is slipping away.
The athletes, national Olympic committees and worldwide federations concerned are in the process of being informed, with proceedings likely to follow.
“But now the clean athletes are deprived even of the chance to go and compete and this is okay?”
Russian Federation has always been a sporting supergiant in the Olympics and their absence from the game would be a huge loss for the reputation of the game.
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The nationalities of the athletes who failed the most recent doping tests were not made available.
