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CAS writes in a press release Thursday afternoon.
Therefore, they are not allowed to participate in the Summer Olympics in 2021 or the Winter Olympics in 2022. They are also not allowed to participate in any world championships during the period.
The ban does not apply to Russian practitioners who have been shown not to have been doped or to have been part of the state doping system that has taken place in Russia. These athletes can participate in international competitions under a neutral flag.
Russia was initially banned for four years by the International Anti-Doping Agency (WADA). Therefore, the CAS changed this sentence to two years. The decision was unanimous among the three judges.
Cannot host championships
The Russians will also not be able to host the World Cup for the next two years. The ruling establishes that said championships must be moved to another place if it is “practically and legally possible.
Rusada’s turbulent years
The Russian anti-doping agency Rusada has had bad weather in recent years. It started in 2015 when they were suspended by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) for extensive violations of doping rules since 2011.
Four years ago came what is known as the McLaren report, because the work on it was led by law professor Richard McLaren. It was revealed that Russian athletes participated in a state doping program, where, among other things, positive doping tests were replaced by negative ones during the Sochi Olympics in 2014.
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) still chose not to exclude Russia from the 2016 Summer Olympics, but the International Athletics Federation refused to allow several athletes to participate.
After much pressure, Russia was excluded from the Winter Olympics in South Korea in 2018, but some Russian athletes were able to participate under a neutral flag. In the fall of the same year, Rusada was returned to the Wada heat. This caused great protests.
REPORT: Richard McLaren came out in 2016 with the Mclaren report. More than 1,000 athletes were revealed to have been part of a state-sponsored Russian doping program.
Photo: Ruben Sprich / Reuters
A few months later, extensive investigations began in the Moscow doping laboratory. More than 2,000 samples were analyzed and Wada believes that most of them were tampered with. As a result, in December 2019, Wada decided to ban Rusada again.
Wada then decided that Russia could not participate in the Olympics, Paralympics or any other major championship for the next four years. That punishment was quickly appealed by Rusada, who believes they have done nothing wrong. And so the case was taken to the court of sports arbitration (TAS).
