“The CAS Panel in charge of this matter found that the IPC did not violate any procedural rule in dealing with the disciplinary process leading to the RPC’s suspension and that the decision to ban the RPC was made in accordance with the IPC Rules and was proportionate in the circumstances”, a statement posted on the website of the CAS said.
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Russia PM Dmitri Medvedev thinks the CAS’s actions on the doping scandal are cynical.
Russia’s demand will refer to the violation of the rights of Russian athletes, many of whom trained four years to participate in the most important games of their lives, or participate, in the case of some sports, a single time, says the Russian press.
The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) suspended the Russian Paralympic Committee on 7 August in the wake of a report that exposed wide-scale state-sponsored doping in Russia.
We felt that the decision to keep more than 260 Russian athletes from Rio was taken beforehand and elsewhere, argued the Russian official.
Russian TV on Tuesday carried interviews with Paralympic athletes denied the chance to compete in Rio, among them track-and-field athlete Alexei Ashapatov.
A further appeal by Russian Federation to Switzerland’s federal court is possible, but it is unlikely to take place before the Games open in Rio on 7 September.
The world Paralympic governing body used evidence from an ongoing WADA-appointed investigation into a Russian state program of doping and cover-ups which ran from 2011 to 2015 in nearly 30 summer and winter sports.
This meant that all Russian athletes were barred from competing in September’s Games.
Russian Paralympic Committee President Vladimir Lukin had sought to portray his athletes as independent from the Moscow government.
IPC president Sir Philip Craven added the organisation has “enormous sympathy” for the athletes who will miss out on the Games.
Russian Federation has lost its appeal to the committee against a ban slapped on it for apparently mandating a state-sanctioned doping program for almost all of its national athletes -including Paralympics athletes according to a recent BBC news report.
“One certainly sees in this decision a striving of some leaders of the global Paralympic movement to eliminate strong rivals since our team always won top spots”, the former state president wrote.
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Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev called the refusal to allow Russian athletes to take part in the Paralympic Games an attempt to remove a strong rival on Tuesday.
