CAS decision to suspend six Russian track and field athletes accepted for execution - Russian Athletic Federation
MOSCOW. March 24 (Interfax) - The All-Russia Athletic Federation (ARAF) has accepted for execution the resolution of the Lausanne-based Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) on the punishment for the Russian track and field athletes caught doping.
"The judgment of CAS is final and without appeal. The ARAF accepts it for execution and is convinced that uncompromising struggle against doping in the domestic athletics will bear fruit and Russians will be able to return to the family of world athletics," ARAF said in the statement distributed on Thursday.
The Russian Federation recalled that more than one year ago, the Russian Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA) announced that six Russian athletes were suspended for various terms on the basis of abnormal biological passport data. The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) did not uphold the resolution on the selective suspension issued by RUSADA, and filed an appeal with the CAS in March 2015, demanding the review of the RUSADA resolution.
On March 23, CAS resolved that all competitive results obtained by Olga Kaniskina from August 15, 2009, through October 15, 2012, must be disqualified, as well as the results of Sergey Kirdyapkin, obtained from August 20, 2009, through October 15, 2012, the results of Sergey Bakulin from February 25, 2011, through December 24, 2012, the results of Yuliya Zaripova from July 20, 2011, through July 25, 2013, and the results of Valeriy Borchin obtained from August 14, 2009, through October 15, 2012.
The CAS reversed the RUSADA decision to issue a lifetime ban to Vladimir Kanaykin, instead, handing him an eight-year suspension from sports. His suspension term will be counted, starting from December 17, 2012. All of the results obtained by Kanaykin from February 25, 2011, through December 17, 2012, have been disqualified.
The athletes have been stripped of all of their titles and awards, including all of their Olympic medals, and the trophies that they won at the world and European championships during the aforementioned periods.