Unjustified lawsuit

The Federal Court of Switzerland rejected the lawsuit of six Russian athletes against the International Olympic Committee to refuse to admit to the 2018 Olympics in Pyeongchang. This is reported by the portal Insidethegames.

The collective lawsuit against the IOC was filed by the skaters of Switzerland Denis Yuskov and Pavel Kulizhnikov, ski jumping from the springboard Dmitry Vasiliev, biathlonists Alexander Loginov, Irina Starykh, Shorttrettrektsk Tatyana Borodulina. They were convicted of violation of anti -doping rules, but left for disqualification.

Athletes disputed in court a criterion for admission to the Olympics, put forward by the IOC exclusively to the Russians, the lack of a doping history throughout their career. The fact that these athletes did not receive an invitation to Pyeongchang became known on January 23.

Meanwhile, the IOC Commission, under the leadership of the former Minister of Sports of France and the head of the independent organization of anti -doping testing (ITA), Valerie Fourneuron will check the possibility of invitation to Pyeongchang 15 Russians justified by the Arbitration Court of sports. This was stated at the press conference by the Director of the IOC of communications Mark Adams, TASS reports .

On Thursday, CAS canceled the IOC decisions on life disqualification of 28 Russian athletes previously accused of using doping during the Sochi Olympics. Their results shown at the 2014 Games are restored. The evidence against the Russians was stated in order to definitely conclude about the violation of the anti -doping rules.

The appeals of 11 other athletes were partially satisfied. Their use of doping is recognized as proven, and the cancellation of the results in Sochi is upheld. At the same time, he was replaced by a lifelong disqualification by the ban on participating only in the nearest Olympiad. The consideration of the complaints of three more Russian athletes was postponed for a while after the Olympic Games.

On the same day, the Olympic Committee of Russia asked the IOC to allow 13 from the excessive CAS athletes who had not yet completed their careers, as well as two coaches in Pyeongchang.

In turn, the IOC said that the CAS decision does not mean that justified athletes will be able to perform at the 2018 Games. Russians will be able to go to Korea only at the invitation of the IOC. The statement noted that the IOC will analyze the motivating part of the CAS solution for each case. Then, if such a need arises, the IOC will appeal to the Federal Court of Switzerland. The World Anti -Doping Agency supported the IOC statement.

Decisions on life disqualification of Russians were adopted in November - December last year by the International Olympic Committee following the results of his commission, headed by Swiss lawyer Denis Oswald. At the end of November, a group of disqualified athletes turnedto Vladimir Putin with a request to "help to figure it out" in the situation.