Klishina was Russia’s lone representative in the track and field at the Games after a blanket ban was imposed on her compatriots following revelations of state-sponsored performance-enhancing drug use, documented in a report commissioned by the World Anti-Doping Agency and delivered by Professor Richard McLaren.
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The CAS ruled that Klishina had “established that she was subject to fully compliant drug-testing in- and out-of-competition outside of Russian Federation”.
However, the Court of Arbitration for Sport has overturned that decision.
This prompted the IAAF to withdraw her Klishina’s exemption.
On August 13, the IAAF press service told TASS that Klishina had been banned from the Olympic competitions because of new evidence, which emerged last week. She proved to be clean for competitions, the only (Russian) track-and-field athlete to meet the IAAF competition criteria.
The CAS panel decided that despite McLaren s new information, Klishina “complied with the relevant criteria (to compete at Rio) because of her permanent residence outside Russian Federation”.
Ahead of the CAS hearing, Russian Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko said in commenting on Klishina’s case that the accusations against Russian athletes had been part of a “campaign directed against Russian sport, to discredit it”.
Ahead of the Games, the IAAF had ruled the 25-year-old, who is based in the United States, was not involved in the doping programme and had been subject to sufficient drug tests outside of Russian Federation.
The IAAF on Monday confirmed the CAS decision to allow Klishina to compete in a brief four-line statement.
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The decision came just in time for Klishina, a former European indoor champion, to begin her campaign for the women s long jump competition which starts on Tuesday.
