“We found that member – the Russian Paralympic Committee – not to be fulfilling its obligations in regards to the IPC Anti-Doping Code and World Anti-Doping Code and therefore made a decision to take the best course of action for the Paralympic movement”.
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But the International Olympic Committee eventually controversially chose to allow some Russian athletes to take part provided they passed a vetting process.
The IPC said the 267 places secured by Russian athletes would now be redistributed.
Eventually, 278 Russian athletes travelled to Rio for the Olympics, which wrapped up Sunday, with Russia winning fourth place in the overall medal table, taking home 56 medals.
“Beyond Rio 2016, we will work with the World Anti-Doping Agency to establish the criteria the Russian Paralympic Committee needs to meet in order to fulfil all its membership obligations and have its suspension lifted”.
CAS dismissed the Russian Paralympic Committee’s appeal against exclusion from competing in Rio after a hearing was held in Brazil on Monday.
“Their medals-over-morals mentality disgusts me”, he said at the time.
“(The) decision to ban the (Russian team) was made in accordance with the IPC Rules and was proportionate in the circumstances”, the sports court said Tuesday in a statement.
The IOC was widely criticised for ignoring the World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) recommendation to ban Russian Federation.
An appeal by Russia’s Paralympic committee to Switzerland’s federal court is possible though unlikely before the games open, Alexei Karpenko, an attorney representing the Russian athletes, said in televised remarks.
The Swiss supreme court could intervene if the legal process was abused but not judge the merits of the evidence – which the CAS panel was satisfied had proven that Russian authorities organized cheating.
The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has dismissed the appeal filed by the Russian Paralympic Committee (RPC) against the decision rendered by Governing Board of the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) on 7 August 2016.
The International Paralympics Committee (IPC) imposed the ban in July after an investigation commissioned by the World Anti-Doping Agency found new proof that Russia’s sports ministry, aided by the country’s F.S.B. security service, had created a system for concealing doping by its athletes across virtually every Olympic discipline and several Paralympic.
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The IPC made the decision in light of the McLaren report, which detailed a state-sponsored doping programme operated by Russian Federation. It is a sad day for the Paralympic movement but we hope also a new beginning. Russia’s weightlifting team was banned and only one track and field athlete, who trained in the US out of the Russian testing system, was ruled eligible. The ruling follows a months-long saga that saw an avalanche of allegations fall on Russian Federation that it had sought to hide doping among dozens of its athletes over many years, including by medal winners.
