After a last-ditch attempt to appeal the CAS’s decision to ban her from the Olympics for unspecified reasons failed, two-time Russian Olympic pole vault champion Yelena Isinbayeva said she is going to Rio to compete for a post on the IOC’s athletes’ panel. In a heart-wrenching post on social media,…
Russia’s pole vaulter says she still hopes to participate in Rio Olympics. MOSCOW, July 28. /TASS/. Russian pole vault queen Yelena Isinbayeva said on Thursday she intended to turn to courts of various instances to prove that she had been illegally barred from the 2016 Summer Olympic Games in Brazil.…
Russia’s banned track and field athletes are expected to find out on Thursday whether they will be allowed to compete in the Rio Olympics Games, after lodging an appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport. The country’s participation at any event in Brazil also hangs in the balance, with…
Yelena Isinbayeva, a two-time Olympic pole vault champion, has suffered another blow in her attempts to compete in Rio after athletics’ world governing body rejected all but one appeal from Russian athletes to line up as ‘neutrals’ in Brazil. Long jumper Darya Klishina, who trains in Florida, was the only…
MOSCOW: Russian pole vaulter Yelena Isinbayeva has applied to world athletics governing body IAAF to compete at the Rio Olympics despite Russia’s ban, athletics authorities in Moscow said on Thursday. “Isinbayeva sent her application on Wednesday,” Alla Glushchenko, the spokeswoman for the Russian athletics federation, told AFP. The IAAF voted…
Russian athletes won’t be able to take part in the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro unless the International Association of Athletics Federations restores Russia’s membership. MOSCOW, June 17. /TASS/. Two-time Olympic pole vault champion Yelena Isinbayeva told TASS on Friday she intended to prove in a court of…
Russian world and Olympic pole vault medalist Yelena Isinbayeva defended clean athletes’ right to compete in the Rio Olympics in an open letter. MOSCOW (Sputnik) — Russian world and Olympic pole vault medalist Yelena Isinbayeva penned an open letter addressed to the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) defending her and her fellow…
The IAAF could all-but guarantee American Jenn Suhr a gold medal if it bans the entire Russian track team from the Rio de Janeiro Games. Suhr is hoping that doesn’t happen. The defending Olympic champion said Thursday that she wants to compete against the top competition this Summer in Rio…
With just more than five months until the Rio Olympics, the World Anti-Doping Agency finds itself in what its director general calls “a fragile time for clean sport worldwide.” Russia and Kenya are in danger of missing the Olympics — the former after being indefinitely banned after an independent commission uncovered…
Decision over lifting of Russia’s ban from international competition to take place after next year’s World Indoor Championships in Portland, Oregon No Russian athletes will appear at next year’s IAAF World Indoor Championships. Russia has effectively been banned from next year’s World Indoor Championships after it was confirmed a decision…
