Do not get one by one

The International Paralympic Committee rejected the individual applications of Russian athletes for admission to the 2016 Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro. This was reported by the press service of the Ministry of PSA.

"The International Paralympic Committee announced on Thursday, which would not allow individual Russian athletes to participate as neutral athletes in the Paralympic Games in Rio-2016. The decision was made after individual requests from more than 175 Russian athletes to participate in the Paralympic Games, which open on September 7," the press release said.

“The MPC sympathizes with Russian athletes who currently cannot take part in the Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. The main goal of the MPC is to provide athletes to improve their skills, unfortunately, the Russian authorities deprived their athletes with this opportunity,” said the Executive Director of the MPC Ksavier Gonzalez. “After the Paralympic Committee of Russia will show, it will show, it will show, What can be ensured in the future to comply with the anti -doping code of the Ministry of Publics forces, the committee will be glad to welcome Russian athletes to international competitions again. "

Sanctions against the Russian Paralympic movement were applied on the basis of the investigation of the WADA independent commission. July 22, after receiving information about 35 Russian paralympians mentioned in the WADA commission report, the International Paralympic Committee opened the case against the RCC.

On August 7, it was announced that the MPC made a unanimous decision on the removal of Russian athletes from the Paralympics and the deprivation of the PCR of the Organization. After that, the PCR appealed to CAS.

On August 23, it became known that CAS upheld the decision of the MPC . The PCC challenged this decision in the Federal Court of Switzerland. On Wednesday, this instance rejected the Russian complaint . "The Federal Court rejects the petition of the PCR to admit Russian athletes to participate in the Paralympic Games. The PCR cannot declare a single athlete for the Paralympic Games," the court said.

On August 25, President Vladimir Putin said that Russia will hold special competitions for paralympians with awards identical to the Olympic. “I want to say to our Paralympicians: of course, we will support you and specially organize competitions where you can show your skill, and encouragement for winners and winners will be the same as it would be according to the results of the Olympic Games,” Putin promised.

On Wednesday, President of the PCR Vladimir Lukin said that the tournament for the Russian paralympians detached from the 2016 Games will be held at the sports facilities of the Moscow Region within two days - September 7 and 8. “For example, the athletics tournament will be held in Novogorsk. The decision on this was, as you know, it was made recently, and we are talking about holding very large competitions. We solve all issues, and there are thousands of little things. As soon as we solve everything, we will say everything,” Lukin noted.