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.
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Last week, the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) suspended the Russian based on new information it received about the 25-year-old.
Greene said the IAAF case relies on confidential evidence from a report on Russian doping by World Anti-Doping Agency investigator Richard McLaren, with a key piece of evidence being scratch marks found on bottles containing drug-test samples she gave in Russia.
Now, though, she’s been forced to appeal the decision to bar her from the long jump, which starts Tuesday, emphatically denying any wrongdoing and imploring the Court of Arbitration for Sport to settle the matter quickly.
In a verdict released this morning, the ad-hoc CAS division based here confirmed how they have upheld the appeal, meaning Klishina is once again eligible to compete in the Olympic long jump qualifying starting tomorrow.
Klishina defended herself, saying she was clean and was appealing against the decision to sport’s highest tribunal.
Klishina immediately said she would appeal against the suspension.
Darya Klishina will be Russia’s only track and field athlete at Rio. On that basis, the IAAF DRB determined that the Athlete was directly affected and tainted by State-organized doping scheme described in the McLaren Report.
Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Culture, Sports, and Youth Affairs, Dmitry Svishchev, expressed his displeasure with the IAAF’s ban on Darya Klishina, calling the decision “an abuse of power” while Russian sports minister Vitaly Mutko called the accusations against Darya a “campaign directed against Russian sport, to discredit it”.
But the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) told Reuters on Monday it had upheld Klishina’s appeal against the ban. “It’s beyond the realm of common sense”.
“I am a clean athlete, and I proved it repeatedly”, Klishina wrote on her Facebook page on Saturday.
The IAAF announced in late June that it had amended the organisation’s regulations in order to allow field and track athletes from Russian Federation to submit individual applications for worldwide tournaments.
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The IAAF barred the entire Russian athletics team from the Rio Games in response to the doping allegations.
