The IAAF had accepted her application because she is based in the United States and had been subject to sufficient drug tests outside Russian Federation.
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Klishina has appealed the decision to the Court of Arbitration for Sport. The women’s long jump is scheduled to begin Tuesday.
Rio de Janeiro (dpa) – Russian Federation has no track and field athlete left at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics after its only eligible athlete, long jumper Darya Klishina, has been told by the ruling body IAAF she can’t compete.
“Relevantly, the athlete established that she was subject to fully compliant drug-testing in- and out-of-competition outside of Russian Federation for the ‘relevant period'”.
The IAAF has not disclosed what new information it has.
The eligibility of long jumper Darya Klishina was revoked by the IAAF based on new information it received last week, spokesman Yannis Nikolaou told The Associated Press.
Some Russian athletes who were named in that report were able to regain their Olympic spots on appeal to CAS, although others were refused.
‘I am a clean athlete and have proved that already many times and beyond any doubt. “(Having been) based in the USA for three years now, I have been nearly exclusively tested outside of the anti-doping system in question.
“I am falling victim to those … who use (our sport) for political purposes”.
“I can not help but feel betrayed by a system that is not focused on keeping the sport clean and supporting rank-and-file athletes, but rather seeking victories outside sport arenas”. It also shed light on the reasons for the IAAF’s decision.
“However, two days later, on August 10, IAAF’s anti-doping panel made a decision to ban Darya Klishina from the Olympic Games”. As a result, the IAAF panel chose to reconsider its own decision on allowing the Russian athlete to compete made on July 9.
The doping inquiry has cast a pall over the Games, fomenting what some have called an “anti-Russian atmosphere” in Rio and prompting the International Paralympic Committee to exclude Russia from its own Games next month.
Long jumper Darya Klishina was suspended this evening after new evidence emerged in relation to the World Anti-Doping Agency’s (Wada) report on doping in Russian athletics, a source said.
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But in the early hours of Monday, CAS issued a statement saying the Russian’s appeal against suspension had been upheld.
