The decision came just in time for Klishina, a former European indoor champion, to resume her campaign for the women’s long-jump competition which starts on Tuesday.
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The International Association of Athletics Federations has revoked its own previous decision declaring Klishina to be the only Russian athlete eligible to compete in international competitions, including the athletics competition at the Olympic Games 2016, basing on some “new factual elements concerning the athlete” presented by Prof.
She posted: “Yesterday I appealed the decision by the IAAF to ban me from the Rio Olympic Games and other IAAF global competitions to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (Ad Hoc division in Rio)”.
“The Court of Arbitration for Sport set aside the IAAF decision and confirmed I am a clean athlete who remains eligible to compete under IAAF rules in the Olympic Games and other global competitions”, she said on her Facebook page on Monday.
But a source told Reuters new evidence had emerged from a World Anti-Doping Agency investigation conducted by lawyer Richard McLaren, prompting the IAAF to pull her exemption.
The IAAF didn’t disclose the nature of that information.
In upholding Klishina’s appeal, Cas said that her permanent residence outside Russian Federation still applied despite the IAAF’s additional information.
“However, the CAS released a statement, again via CNN, that “[Klishina] established that she was subject to fully compliant drug-testing in and out of competition outside of Russian Federation”.
The IAAF on Monday issued a short statement accepting the ruling.
” At 1:00am today, the parties were informed that the application was upheld and that the a thlete remained eligible to compete in the Olympic Games in Rio”, the statement said.
Klishina attended Sunday’s hearing in person at the court’s temporary base at a beachfront hotel in Rio then trained near the Olympic Stadium on Sunday night while awaiting the court’s decision.
The 25-year-old Russian long jumper and professional model is a permanent resident of the United States.
Klishina is managed by IMG, who has been at the forefront of the case. “It’s beyond the realm of common sense”, AP quotes the Russian official as saying.
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Russian track and field athletes were banned from the Olympics following claims the country ran a state-sponsored doping programme. The sanction was upheld for the Olympics by CAS last month.
