CAS Rejects the Urgent Requests for Provisional Measures Filed by Five Russian Athletes

The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has today rejected urgent requests for provisional measures filed by five Russian cross country skiers – Alexey Petukhov, Evgenia Shapovalova, Maxim Vylegzhanin, Alexander Legkov and Evgeniy Belov.

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Lausanne, 21 February 2017 – The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has today rejected urgent

requests for provisional measures filed by five Russian cross country skiers – Alexey Petukhov,

Evgenia Shapovalova, Maxim Vylegzhanin, Alexander Legkov and Evgeniy Belov. The athletes

sought to stay the execution of the decisions taken by the FIS Doping Panel on 25 January 2017

(Alexander Legov and Evgeniy Belov) and on 6 February 2017 (Alexey Petukhov, Evgenia

Shapovalova and Maxim Vylegzhanin), which confirmed their provisional suspensions, in order to be

able to compete at the 2017 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships that will take place in Lahti, Finland

from 22 February to 5 March 2017. Consequently, the athletes remain provisionally suspended.

On 22 December 2016, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) opened investigation procedures

against the athletes further to evidence presented in the second McLaren Independent Investigation

Report that urine samples provided by the athletes during the 2014 Sochi Olympic Winter Games may

have been tampered with, by manipulation of samples in the WADA-accredited laboratory in Sochi.

The same day, the FIS Doping Panel imposed provisional suspensions on each athlete, which were

confirmed in the decisions dated 25 January 2017 and 6 February 2017.

The decisions issued today are given in response to requests for provisional measures filed during the

course of the athletes’ appeal arbitration procedures before the CAS. The arbitration procedures are

still ongoing and the parties are currently exchanging written submissions and the process of

appointing the arbitrators who will decide the matters is underway. At this early stage of the proceedings,

it is not possible to determine when the final decisions will be issued.

For further information related to the CAS activity and procedures in general, please contact either Matthieu Reeb, CAS Secretary

General, or Katy Hogg, Communications Officer. Château de Béthusy, Avenue de Beaumont 2, 1012 Lausanne, Switzerland.

media@tas-cas.org; Tel: (41 21) 613 50 00; fax: (41 21) 613 50 01, or consult the CAS website: www.tas-cas.org

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