Russian Olympic Committee loses appeal against suspension from the Olympic Games – Publinews – 2024-02-24 04:31:06

Bad news for the athlete representatives of Russia. And this Friday the Court of Arbitration for Sports announced that it has rejected the appeal of the Russian Olympic Committee against the suspension that was imposed on him in October 2023.

He International Olympic CommitteeFor its part, it opposed the incorporation of four sports organizations representing regions of eastern Ukraine into the Russian entity. According to the court, the suspension of the IOC “has not breached the principles of legality, equality, predictability or proportionality.”

However, the Russian Olympic Committee has the option of appealing to the Swiss Supreme Court to have the suspension lifted. The ROC said the CAS decision, which has not been fully published, “virtually copied the IOC’s arguments” and ignored Russia’s case.

How did the Russian Olympic Committee react to the CAS rejection?

“This CAS decision is further evidence that civil and sporting discrimination directed against Russians has reached an unprecedented level before the Games in Paris.â€the ROC said in a statement.

The Russian committee assured that the CAS “confirmed that the Russian Olympic team, Russian athletes and officials will not participate in the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad in Paris, as it excluded the possible cooperation of the ROC with athletes that the IOC recognizes as They meet the criterion of so-called neutrality.

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The suspension suffered by the ROC eliminated the organization’s right to receive funds from the IOC, but it has not affected the country’s athletes who compete internationally as neutrals, including in many qualifying events for this year’s Paris Olympics, as part of an initiative backed by the IOC.