The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has dismissed the appeal filedby the Russian Paralympic Committee (RPC) against the decision rendered by Governing Board of theInternational Paralympic Committee (IPC) on 7 August 2016. As a consequence, the IPC decision isconfirmed.
Following revelations related to the doping system in Russia, the IPC Governing Board suspended theRPC from IPC membership due to its alleged inability to fulfil its responsibilities and obligations tocomply with the IPC Anti-doping Code and the World Anti-doping Code. The RPC filed a statementof appeal with the CAS in Lausanne on 15 August 2016 challenging the ban imposed by the IPC.Theparties agreed to an expedited arbitration procedure with a hearing in Rio de Janeiro on 22 August2016 in presence of the parties and their representatives.
The CAS Panel in charge of this matter found that the IPC did not violate any procedural rule in dealingwith the disciplinary process leading to the RPC’s suspension and that the decision to ban the RPCwas made in accordance with the IPC Rules and was proportionate in the circumstances.The Panelalso noted that the RPC did not file any evidence contradicting the facts on which the IPC decisionwas based.
The parties in this procedure were the International Paralympic Committee and Russian ParalympicCommittee exclusively.In making its decision, the CAS Panel did consider the particular status of theRPC as a national governing body but did not determine the existence of, or the extent of, any naturaljustice rights or personality rights afforded to individual athletes following the suspension of the RPC.
The full award with the grounds will be issued within the next days.
For more information, please contact:
Matthieu Reeb
CAS Secretary General
Katy Hogg
Communications Officer
Email: media@tas-cas.org
Tel: (41 21) 613 50 00
Fax: (41 21) 613 50 01
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