Скачать или смотреть The Court of Arbitration for Sport uphold Russia's track and field athletes ban

The Court of Arbitration for Sport on Thursday (21st July) upheld the ban on Russia's track and field athletes ahead of the Olympic Games in Brazil next month.

SOUNDBITE: (English) Matthieu Reeb, CAS General-Secretary:

"The Court of Arbitration for Sport has dismissed the request filed by the Russian Olympic Committee and 68 Russian athletes. These requests were limited to certain legal issues concerning the application, the validity, the scope of new rules of the International Athletics Federation adopted on 17 June 2016 which states that 'athletes whose national federation is suspended by the IAAF are ineligible for competition held under the IAAF rules including the Olympic Games unless they satisfy specific criteria.' As a consequence the Russian Olympic Committee is not entitled to nominate Russian track and field athletes for the Olympic Games unless they fulfil these specific criteria. Since the international Olympic Committee was not a party to these arbitrations, the CAS as no jurisdiction to determine whether the IOC is entitled to accept or refuse the nomination by the Russian Olympic Committee of Russian track and field athletes to compete at the Olympic Games in Rio."

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