(ATR) The IOC says Russia’s Yelena Isinbayeva has “every right” to take part in athletes’ commission elections, despite the Russian athletics team’s Rio ban. On Monday, the Federal Supreme Court in Lausanne rejected Isinbayeva’s last-ditch bid to take part at the Rio Games, according to the TASS news agency. The…
MOSCOW, July 28. /TASS/. The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) again rejected two-time Olympic pole vault champion Yelena Isinbayeva’s appeal to compete in the 2016 Summer Olympic Games in Rio, she wrote on her Instagram page on Thursday. Earlier in the day, Isinbayeva had said that she was expecting…
Around 70 athletes from Russia’s Olympic team touched down in Brazil on Friday ahead of next month’s games, which start in Rio on August 5. However, hours earlier, the IAAF rejected an appeal from world pole vault record holder Yelena Isinbayeva to compete. Russia’s national team was greeted by Russia’s…
Russia has announced that more than 250 athletes have been cleared to compete in the Rio Olympics next month even as President Vladimir Putin claimed that Russia’s over 100 doping-related suspensions amounted to “discrimination.” Russian Olympic Committee chief Aleksandr Zhukov said on July 26 that more than 250 of Russia’s…
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 Yelena Isinbaeva, says the final decision on her participation in the Summer Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro is expected on Thursday. MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Two-time Olympic pole vault champion, Russia’s Yelena Isinbaeva, says the final decision on her participation in the Summer Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro is expected on Thursday.…
ZHUKOVSKY, Russia Long jumper Ekaterina Koneva says she’ll cry. World hurdles champion Sergei Shubenkov says he’ll drown his sorrows. A day before a sports court rules on Russia’s appeal against the ban on its track and field team from the Olympics, star Russian athletes at a meet near Moscow pondered…
