CAS: Russian athlete Klishina remains eligible for Olympics in Rio

She was given the green light since she has trained outside of Russian Federation for the past three years and underwent the systematic drug-testing.

The long jump final is scheduled for Wednesday.

Klishina challenged her decision and CAS and was finally cleared for the competitions in Rio.

But the sport’s governing body banned her from the Olympics last week after receiving what it said was new information.

The IAAF didn’t disclose the nature of that information.

The CAS panel decided however that despite McLaren’s new information, Klishina “complied with the relevant criteria (to compete at Rio) because of her permanent residence outside Russian Federation”.

Russian Federation escaped a blanket ban despite the grave allegations, but its athletes had to meet strict criteria to compete in Brazil, with some 280 of them now at the Games.

The IAAF on Monday issued a short statement accepting the ruling.

Her lawyers have argued that no evidence had been presented, only that McLaren had told the IAAF about the sample bottles which reportedly had scratch marks on them.

After a day of hearing, the Court of Arbitration announced in the early hours that Klishina’s appeal had succeeded and she “remained eligible to compete in the Olympic Games in Rio”.

The long jumper also said that she has been based in the U.S. for three years and “almost exclusively tested outside of the Anti-Doping system in question”.

IOC President Thomas Bach announced in late July that Russian athletes, with the exception of track and field competitors, were allowed to participate in the 2016 Summer Olympics based on individual approval of each respective global sports federation or association.

“This decision proves that justice can be fair”, Interfax quoted Vitaly Mutko as saying.

More than 100 Russian Olympians were banned from the games after the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) uncovered a massive, state-sponsored cheating scandal. The sanction was upheld for the Olympics by CAS last month.

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