‘Placing Russian athletes first’: RUSADA calls CAS ruling ‘unjustified,’ however won’t problem ban on nation

The Russian Anti-Doping Company (RUSADA) known as the December ruling by the Courtroom of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) unfair, however mentioned it won’t enchantment it and can transfer on to safe the pursuits of unpolluted Russian athletes.

The CAS ruling was “based mostly on a flawed and one-sided evaluation of the information,” RUSADA mentioned in a press launch following a “detailed overview” of the choice that the Swiss-based court docket took on December 17. At the moment, the court docket sided with the World Anti-Doping Company (WADA) and banned Russia as a rustic from main worldwide sporting occasions for the subsequent two years.

Which means that the Russian flag and anthem might be absent from the subsequent two Olympics – Tokyo in the summertime of 2021, and the Winter Video games in Beijing in February 2022 – in addition to the FIFA World Cup in Qatar in 2022 ought to the Russian crew qualify. Russian athletes that qualify for the tournaments must carry out as neutrals.

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The ban was upheld after WADA accused RUSADA of manipulating laboratory knowledge it despatched to the company in 2019 as a part of the phrases of its reinstatement. RUSADA mentioned the court docket uncared for submissions and proof offered by the Russian facet and successfully punished the company for one thing that was outdoors of its energy.

In feedback on the ruling, RUSADA mentioned the company by no means had entry to a duplicate of the information of the Moscow anti-doping laboratory which WADA mentioned was manipulated.

“RUSADA considers that this choice not solely contravenes primary rules of equity, however can also be unwarranted in mild of the numerous progress made by RUSADA through the reinstatement course of, and which has been, once more, expressly acknowledged by WADA.”

The company additionally known as sanctions imposed by the court docket “wholly unsubstantiated and unjustified.” The CAS additionally rejected WADA’s request to collectively sanction all Russian athletes, together with the harmless ones. Due to this, RUSADA won’t problem the choice within the Swiss Supreme Courtroom, the company mentioned.

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“Harmless athletes ought to by no means be held liable for the actions of the few people who commit anti-doping rule violations,” the company mentioned, including that “placing the pursuits of Russian athletes and Russian sport first… RUSADA has made the choice to not problem the CAS award.”

The company mentioned that this chapter within the historical past of Russian and worldwide sports activities is now “closed” and it’ll deal with working with WADA to completely restore its membership standing with the group.

This sentiment was additionally expressed by Sports activities Minister Oleg Matytsin within the rapid aftermath of the court docket ruling in December. “We simply have to study the teachings of the previous and transfer ahead. We have to keep open and proceed engaged on an expert degree,” he mentioned on the time, including that Russia would nonetheless be capable of maintain some worldwide sporting occasions.

The UEFA European Soccer Championship scheduled for this summer season falls outdoors the ban, since UEFA is just not outlined by WADA as a “main occasion group.” A part of the event is to be performed in St. Petersburg.

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The identical goes for the 2023 World Hockey Championship set for St. Petersburg, because the ban will solely run till December 16, 2022.

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