The Court of Arbitration for Sport has cleared Russia’s Darya Klishina to compete in the long jump at Rio 2016.
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Later in July, CAS turned down an appeal from the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) and 68 national athletes filed against IAAF, thus closing the doors on Russian field and track athletes to the 2016 Summer Olympic Games in Brazil.
The IAAF revoked her eligibility after Canadian lawyer Richard McLaren – who last month released a report for the World Anti-Doping Agency that accused Russian Federation of “state-sponsored” doping – provided “new factual elements” about Klishina, the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) said. “The outcome we reached to revoke Darya Klishina’s exceptional eligibility was not upheld by CAS despite the information received from McLaren and she is therefore eligible to compete in Rio”, read the statement.
Striking down the ban, CAS said Klishina’s permanent residence in the USA meant she still met the IAAF’s competition criteria “despite the additional information provided by Professor McLaren”.
Russian Federation escaped a blanket ban despite the grave allegations, but its athletes had to meet strict criteria to compete in Brazil, with some 280 of them now at the Games.
“The athlete established that she was subject to fully compliant drug testing, in and out of competition, outside of Russia”, CAS said in a statement.
Klishina, 25, was the only Russian accepted for the Olympic track and field but the sport’s world body suspended her on Friday after new information on her doping record emerged.
The long jump final is scheduled for Wednesday.
But the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) said on Monday it had upheld Klishina’s appeal against the ban.
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“The IAAF decision of 9 July now remains in effect which found that I was eligible because I was available to reliable drug testing around the world nearly 90 per cent of the time”.
