Darya Klishina, a Russian long jumper, will be permitted to compete in these Rio Olympics, after the Court of Aribtration for Sports (CAS) ruled in her favor.
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The Court of Arbitration for Sport ruled early Monday, Aug. 15, 2016, that long jumper Klishina is eligible to take part in Tuesday’s qualifying because she has been based outside of Russian Federation for the last three years and has been subjected to regular drug-testing.
Klishina had been given an exemption to compete in Rio as a neutral athlete after Russia’s athletics squad was banned from the Games following revelations of state-backed doping in the country.
“I am falling victim to those who created a system of manipulating our attractive sport and is guilty of using it for political purposes”, Klishina wrote on her Facebook Saturday.
She posted: “Yesterday I appealed the decision by the IAAF to ban me from the Rio Olympic Games and other IAAF worldwide competitions to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (Ad Hoc division in Rio)”. She proved to be clean for competitions, the only (Russian) track-and-field athlete to meet the IAAF competition criteria.
But the sport’s governing body banned her from the Olympics last week after receiving what it said was new information.
CAS, however, concluded that Klishina “complied with the relevant criteria because of her permanent residence outside Russian Federation. despite the additional information provided by Prof”.
The Court of Arbitration for Sport ruled early Monday that Darya Klishina is eligible to take part in Tuesday’s long jump qualifying because she has been based outside of Russian Federation for the last three years and has been subjected to regular drug testing.
“We instigated a review process following new evidence presented to us”.
“Today [Monday] the parties were informed that the application was upheld and that the athlete remained eligible to compete in the Olympic Games”, a CAS statement read.
Klishina was reportedly seen on the warm-up track at Rio’s Olympic Stadium on Sunday, prompting speculation she would still be able to compete.
More than 100 Russian Olympians were banned from the games after the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) uncovered a massive, state-sponsored cheating scandal.
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“Now we need to settle down and wish Dasha (Klishina) good luck”, sports minister Vitaly Mutko said on Interfax agency.
