Highlights: The CAS confirms the suspension of the Russian Olympic committee by the IOC. The court based in Lausanne also indicates that its decision is, at its level, “ final and binding ” but that it can be appealed within 30 days to the Swiss Federal Court. The Russian Olympic Committee seized the CAS on November 6. The now confirmed suspension was added to a range of sanctions taken at the end of February 2022, just after the invasion of Ukraine by the Russian army. No consequences for the presence of Russian and Belarusian athletes at the 2024 Olympic Games.

The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) rejected the appeal of the Russian Olympic Committee, which contested its suspension decided in mid-October by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in connection with the conflict in…

The CAS confirms the suspension of the Russian Olympic committee by the IOC

A Russian flag above the symbol of Olympism.

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The IOC thus intends to sanction the placement under the authority of the Russian body of sports organizations in the regions of Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk and Zaporizhia, located in eastern Ukraine and occupied by the Russian army, recalls the CAS in a press release.

The court based in Lausanne also indicates that its decision is, at its level, “

final and binding

” but that it can be appealed within 30 days to the Swiss Federal Court.

On the eve of the second anniversary of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the CAS considers that the IOC "

has not undermined the principles of legality, equality, predictability and proportionality

Meeting in Bombay on October 12 for its 141st session, the IOC had shaken up its agenda to react to the “

unilateral decision

” taken a week earlier by the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) to annex four Ukrainian sports organizations.

No consequences for the presence of Russian and Belarusian athletes

According to the Olympic body, this Russian initiative constitutes a “

violation of the territorial integrity of the Ukrainian national Olympic committee

”, and therefore of the Olympic Charter.

The Russian Olympic Committee seized the CAS on November 6.

The now confirmed suspension of the ROC was added to a range of sanctions taken by the IOC at the end of February 2022, just after the invasion of Ukraine by the Russian army: ban on any international competition on Russian soil as well as in allied Belarus, and all the official symbols of the two countries on the fields and world podiums.

This measure by the IOC also has the effect of depriving the ROC of Olympic funding.

However, it has no impact on the presence of Russian and Belarusian athletes who did not support the Russian invasion of Ukraine, under a neutral banner, at the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, authorized at the beginning of December by the IOC.

The CAS confirms the suspension of the Russian Olympic committee by the IOC

The CAS confirms the suspension of the Russian Olympic committee by the IOC

No consequences for the presence of Russian and Belarusian athletes

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