CAS Reject Russia’s Appeal Against Doping Ban

Swiss-based Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has rejected Russia’s appeal against a doping ban for its entire sports team from participate in Rio Olympics starting in 15 days’ time, and Moscow quickly condemned on this decision.

CAS said in a statement: “CAS rejects the claims/appeal of the Russian Olympic Committee and 68 Russian athletes,” and backing the right of International Association of Athelics Federations (IAAF) to suspend Russian athletics federation.

With the appeal rejected by CAS, the possibility that the International Olympic Committee (IOC) excluding Russia’s representative from all sport in Rio, instead of track and field only became very real, and this will be the biggest crisis in Olympic’s history since U.S and Soviet’s boycott during 1980s.

This is a great blow to Russia who always pride itself as a superpower in sports world, who won itself the third biggest overall medal during last summer Olympics in 2012, but some doubt those results now because of the doping suspicious.

Double Olympic champion pole vaulter Yelena Isinbayeva called the decision “the funeral of athletics”.

“Now let all these foreign pseudo-clean sportspeople sigh with relief and win their pseudo-gold medals in our absence,” Isinbayeva wrote on Instagram. “They have always feared (our) strength.”