“The Athlete challenged the decision rendered by the IAAF Doping Review Board (IAAF DRB) on 12 August 2016, which revoked its previous decision declaring her exceptionally eligible to compete in worldwide competitions, including the athletics competition at the Olympic Games 2016”.
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The other, doping cheat turned whistleblower Yuliya Stepanova, was subsequently deemed ineligible by the International Olympic Committee.
Klishina was declared exempt because she has been based in Florida for the last three years, so has not been subject to the tainted Russian testing programme.
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.
“She plans to say the truth, which is that she’s a clean athlete” who meets IAAF criteria by having trained in the US since 2014 with regular drug testing outside Russia, Greene said.
CAS ruled that Klishina was eligible to compete because she fulfilled the requirements set by the IAAF.
THE world sports tribunal on Monday overturned a last-minute IAAF ban on long-jumper Darya Klishina taking part in the Rio Olympics.
The IAAF DRB also noted that “certain of the athlete’s samples has been subject to tampering and manipulation”, the statement added.
Qualifying for the women’s long jump begins on Tuesday.
Klishina, 10th in the 2015 World Championships, had been cleared to compete in her first Olympics as her drugs-testing record was established in the United States, where she is based, rather than in Russian Federation.
“The athlete established that she was subject to fully compliant drug-testing in and out of competition outside of Russian Federation”, its statement said.
“We have withdrawn her exceptional eligibility status which enables her to compete in worldwide competitions based on new information that has been received”, an IAAF official revealed to the site. “Its goal now is Russian sport”, Mutko told TASS.
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“The decision was objective, a person can not be punished for what he or she did not do”.
