On Thursday, Russia lost an appeal against the decision to ban their athletics team from the Rio Olympics next month.
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The worldwide sports tribunal on Thursday rejected an appeal by Russian athletes against a RioOlympics ban amid mounting pressure for action over state-run doping in Russia.
Three lawyers from Italy, Britain and the United States, widely regarded as amongst the most experienced judges on the court’s list of around 400 approved arbitrators.
“The news is not very good, we will definitely have to analyze the situation taking into account this decision, so I would withhold comment on the issue for the time being”, Peskov said. “They appear to have given a definite “no”, but the International Olympic Committee can still reach a decision on separate athletes”, she said, adding that the chief Thomas Bach will give with the final verdict.
In addition, guidelines for all NOCs and International Federations (IFs) to implement their own policies to safeguard athletes from harassment and abuse in sport have been developed by the IOC in collaboration with leading stakeholders from the Olympic Movement.
The Russian athletics federation was banned by the ruling body IAAF a year ago over widespread doping allegations and the ban was extended last month.
Russian Olympic pole vaulter Yelena Isinbayeva, though, held out one more hope: a decision by the International Olympic Committee to admit the track and field team.
“While we are thankful that our rules and our power to uphold our rules and the anti-doping code have been supported, this is not a day for triumphant statements”.
He said: “When I got to the doctor, he said if I had competed [in the trials], I would probably would have torn my hamstring really badly”. It is our federation’s instinctive desire to include, not exclude.
The decision vacated Russia’s track and field Olympic athletes, with only two cleared so far to compete as “neutrals”.
The CAS case hinges on a central issue: Can all of the country’s track athletes be banned collectively and is it right to punish those who have not been accused of wrongdoing?
THE World Anti-Doping Agency on Wednesday reinstated credentials of a drug testing laboratory in Rio de Janeiro for the Olympic Games, ending a month-long suspension that had threatened to embarrass the host country.
After the Court of Arbitration for Sport ruling, Russia’s Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko called for a disbanding of the IAAF.
The IOC executive board said Tuesday it would “explore the legal options” for a possible total ban on Russian Federation but would wait until after the CAS ruling before making a final decision.
Former World Indoor Championship gold medal victor Derval O’Rourke has said it would be “naive” to think athletics’ doping problems start and end with the Russians, and implored WADA to step up the fight against cheating in all countries.
Termed the Disappearing Positive Methodology, the system revealed in the report included the Ministry of Sport, Center of Sports Preparation of the National Teams of Russia (CSP), Federal Security Service (FSB) and the Moscow and Sochi labs working in coordination from 2011 to 2015 to cover up 643 positive tests of athletes across 29 Olympic sports.
Russia’s last chance at getting its track and field athletes to the 2016 Summer Olympics has been rejected.
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“Now it is for the International Olympic Committee to determine if these athletes can be confirmed or not”, he said.
