“But still we manage to perform successfully despite these obstacles”, Mutko told reporters on Friday.
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USA track and field stars expressed dismay at the doping-ban enforced absence of Russian rivals in Rio de Janeiro on Thursday on the eve of the Olympic track and field competition. Mathieu Reeb, the secretary general of the court, confirmed by email to the AP that the appeal had been filed.
The “Sovetsky Sport” newspaper earlier reported that Klishina was banned from competing Games.
Russian sports publication Sovetsky Sport earlier circulated information that Klishina had been excluded from competing in the Games on the IAAF ruling, after the federation reviewed information presented in a report by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA). As a result, the IAAF panel chose to reconsider its own decision on allowing the Russian athlete to compete made on July 9. Klishina, aside from the fact she is an athlete, she is a human being. “Darya did this before August 8”, the newspaper wrote. Two silver medals won by Russian swimmer Yulia Yefimova at the Rio Olympics are a big success for her and her country, considering that she was training for the competition at such a hard period, Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko said on Friday.
With the Olympic long jump competition getting underway with the qualification round on August 16, a CAS decision is expected within the next two days. “Overall, all of this looks like a mockery of the athlete by the IAAF”, he said in a video message posted by the Russian Olympic Committee.
Klishina was cleared as she has been based in Florida since 2013 and had done several global tests.
The world’s governing body of athletics, however, emphasized that Russians, admitted to competitions on an individual basis, would be unable to perform as part of the national team and would participate only under a neutral flag.
Darya Klishina could be prevented from competing at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games after the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) withdrew the Russian long jumper’s “exceptional eligibility” status.
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Russia’s track and field athletes had been banned from the Olympics due to the doping scandal and only Klishina was cleared by the IAAF to compete in Brazil.
