“At 1:00am today, the parties were informed that the application was upheld and that the Athlete remained eligible to compete in the Olympic Games in Rio”, the CAS statement reads.
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The only Russian due to compete in the athletics at Rio 2016 has been cleared to contest the women’s long jump after successfully appealing against a ban. In rendering its decision, the court noted that Klishina has been training outside Russian Federation for the last three years and passed drug testing regularly, the Associated Press reports.
It added that Klishina “established that she was subject to fully compliant drug-testing in- and out-of-competition outside of Russia” from 2014 onwards.
Despite this, the CAS came to the conclusion that Klishina had “complied with the relevant criteria because of her permanent residence outside Russian Federation… despite the additional information provided by Prof”.
The IAAF on Monday issued a short statement accepting the ruling.
“We instigated a review process following new evidence presented to us”, said the IAAF in response. The IAAF later agreed with the decision.
The exemption to a blanket ban on Russian competitors over allegations of state-sponsored doping had been given to the long jumper after she proved she was not involved in the system and had been subject to drug tests outside the country.
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 global tournaments.
It tried to ban her from the Olympics last week, however, after receiving what it said was new information from World Anti-Doping Agency investigator Richard McLaren.
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Russia’s Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko, who is barred from Rio because of the doping controversy, called the IAAF ban “inhuman”.
