Lausanne (AFP)
An agreement from the Russian Anti-Doping Agency (Rusada) will be necessary for the hearing on the possible exclusion of Russia from the next Tokyo 2020 Olympics to be public, we learned on Tuesday from the Sports Arbitral Tribunal .
The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) Monday called the CAS, which it seized at the beginning of January of the file of Russian doping, so that the hearings to determine if Russia should be excluded from the next Olympics of Tokyo-2020 are public.
"The CAS has just received a request from WADA. We must now consult Rusada on this subject," Matthieu Reeb, secretary general of the CAS, told AFP.
"If there is a consensus in favor of a public hearing, the CAS will certainly validate this choice," he added.
Another CAS public hearing, an exceptional measure, took place recently, at the beginning of December, that concerning the Chinese swimmer Sun Yang, who risks a suspension of 2 to 8 years for an incredible doping control. The triple Olympic champion is accused of destroying his own blood sample with a hammer.
But the agreement of all the parties was then not necessary, the sole request of the sportsman being sufficient in an appeal procedure, which is not the case in the case of Russia.
The CAS, which sits in Lausanne in Switzerland, must make a final decision concerning the exclusion for four years of Russia from any international competition, pronounced on December 9 by WADA to sanction the "manipulation" of doping control data, given to WADA by Rusada.
Since its creation in 1984, the CAS, the supreme judicial body in sports matters which sits most often behind closed doors, has known only two public hearings.
Before that of Sun Yang which took place in Montreux (Switzerland), the only other public hearing concerned the Irish swimmer Michelle Smith of Bruin, in 1999, already for a doping case.
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