She was going to.
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Russia’s Darya Klishina makes an attempt in the women’s long jump qualification during the athletics competitions of the 2016 Summer Olympics at the Olympic stadium in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Tuesday, Aug. 16, 2016.
The court said: “The outcome we reached to revoke Darya Klishina’s exceptional eligibility was not upheld by [the court] despite the information received and she is therefore eligible to compete in Rio”. They waited to hear from the sole member of one of sport’s most powerful track and field teams. She was reinstated early Monday.
Russia’s only track and field athlete has said she wishes she was not competing alone in Rio. “I was waiting for the decision”.
The qualifying result is 6.75 meters. “She started to get her speed going and had two medium fouls”. But her first leap was good enough to make it into the medal round.
But she added: “I’m happy that I’m here at the Olympic Games, it’s my first Olympic Games and this is a really great experience for me”.
“I would like to have around me a big Russian team as usual”, she said.
Klishina escaped a ban imposed before the games began for what world sport bodies called state-sponsored cheating by Russian Federation.
“I want the Russian team here with me”.
But she immediately appealed successfully to the Court of Arbitration for Sport and will now go for gold in Wednesday’s final.
Seagrave, who coached Russian tennis player Maria Sharapova as a 14-year-old, said Klishina had already been subject to out-of-competition drug testing since arriving in Rio and was unfazed by the possibility of a hostile reception in the final. Only Klishina, who lives and trains overseas, is taking part in the Games.
“We got the notification at 4.30 in the morning – I ran over and banged on her door”.
Klishina abruptly ended the media scrum when asked Tuesday night about the unkind things said about Russian athletes.
“I have good support from the girls”.
Asked about the likely impact on Klishina’s performance, Kazikov told Reuters: “I think it will probably have an effect because of all this pressure, when someone has to get ready to compete and you’re having to deal with this legal complication”.
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“It makes me happy to see her, to see a Russian in the Olympic games, especially since she won her place”, said Trevino, holder of Mexico’s long-jump record.
