CAS: right to participate in the Olympic Games and jurisdiction

In a decision (Media Release 4684) dated 21.07.2016, the Court of Arbitration for Sport dismissed request for arbitration filed by the ROC and 68 Claimant Athletes and the appeal filed by 67 of the same athletes against the IAAF decision to consider them as ineligible for the Olympic Games in Rio in application of Rules 22.1(a) and 22.1A of the IAAF Competition Rules, which state that athletes whose national federation is suspended by the IAAF are ineligible for competitions held under the IAAF Rules. Therefore, “Russian Olympic Committee is not entitled to nominate Russian track and field athletes to compete at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games considering that they are not eligible to participate under the IAAF competition rules, in accordance with the Olympic Charter”. In addition, considering that IOC is not a part in the arbitrations, “the CAS found that it had no jurisdiction to determine whether the IOC is entitled generally to accept or refuse the nomination by ROC of Russian track and field athletes to compete at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games”. (ROC-68 Russian Athletes/IAAF)

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