Cas then rejected a Russian Paralympic Committee (RPC) appeal against the ban earlier this week.
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Putin, who at the Kremlin handed gold medal winners state awards, congratulated the Russian Olympic team on its “worthy performance” in Rio but deplored that some athletes, including almost all of its track and field team, were sidelined from the Games.
Russian Federation will appeal in the Swiss Federal Court on Monday local time against the Court of Arbitration for Sport’s (CAS) decision to uphold a blanket ban on their athletes from competing in next month’s Rio Paralympics.
The IPC suspended Russia Paralympians August the 7th because of state-sponsored doping.
26 de agosto de 2016, 15:51Moscow, Aug 26 (Prensa Latina) The Russian Paralympic Committee filed today an appeal with the Swiss Federal Court due to a decision by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) that prevents the participation of Russian athletes in the Rio de Janeiro Games.
“The decision to suspend our Paralympians is outside the law, morality, humanity”, Putin said in a ceremony at the Kremlin that honoured the Russian Olympic medallists returning from Rio.Putin also pledged that the country would organise competitions for the banned Paralympians “to show all their skills”.
Russia’s Olympic team was not banned from participating in this month’s Olympic Games, and because of this the International Olympic Committee (IOC) was heavily criticized by many around the globe.
Russia’s Olympic team finished this month’s Games in Rio in fourth place according to the total number of gold medals it won.
“We have witnessed how humanistic foundations of sport and Olympism can be brazenly violated by politics, how traits such as greed, and perhaps even cowardice, take precedence over the principles of Olympism”.
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“It is simply cynical to vent one’s anger on those for whom sport has become the meaning of their life”.
