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CAS Rejects Appeals from 47 Russian Athletes Over Drug Scandal

  •  Only 169 carefully screened Russian athletes passed the test and will be participating as neutrals in the International Event.

    Only 169 carefully screened Russian athletes passed the test and will be participating as neutrals in the International Event. | Photo: Reuters

Published 8 February 2018
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After much debate, the Court of Arbitration for Sport denied the appeals of 47 Russian athletes and their coaches, banning them from the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics.

The Court of Arbitration for Sport, CAS, denied 47 athletes and coaches from participating in the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics over the 2014 Russian drug scandal.

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Almost 50 athletes attempted to avoid the ban enacted by the International Olympic Committee, IOC, last December after it was discovered that at least 1,000 Russian athletes participated in the extensive use of illicit stimulants during the 2014 Sochi Games.

"In its decisions, the CAS arbitrators have considered that the process created by the IOC to establish an invitation list of Russian athletes to compete as Olympic athletes from Russia (OAR) could not be described as a sanction but rather as an eligibility decision,” the association said in a statement Thursday.

Only 169 carefully screened Russian athletes passed the test and will be participating as neutrals in the International Event.

Following the drug scandal the Russian Olympic Committee, ROC, was also banned by the IOC for its role in supporting drugs.

"Although the ROC was suspended, the IOC nevertheless chose to offer individual athletes the opportunity to participate in the |Winter Games under prescribed conditions - a process that was designed to balance the IOC’s interest in the global fight against doping and the interests of individual athletes from Russia," the IOC said.

The international sports competition is scheduled to kick off Friday and continue until Feb. 25.

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