Swimming-CAS clears Russia’s Kudashev, Andrusenko to compete at Games

July 19 (Reuters) – The Court docket of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) dismissed circumstances in opposition to Russian swimmers Alexandr Kudashev and Veronika Andrusenko on Monday after they’d been suspended for suspected anti-doping rule violations, clearing them to compete on the Tokyo Olympics.

Swimming’s world governing physique FINA provisionally suspended the pair final week based mostly on proof offered by the World Anti-Doping Company stemming from its examination of supplies recovered from the previous Moscow Anti-Doping Laboratory.

After an expedited listening to of the case forward of the July 23-Aug. 8 Video games, CAS mentioned in a statement it had dismissed FINA’s prices.

Sport’s highest court docket added that FINA had not established throughout the proceedings that doping violations had occurred.

Kudashev, 25, is a gold medallist within the males’s 200m butterfly on the 2019 World College Video games and is ready for his first Olympics. Andrusenko, 30, competed on the 2012 and 2016 Video games.

Russian athletes are set to compete in Tokyo with out their flag and anthem due to doping sanctions.

Reporting by Shrivathsa Sridhar in Bengaluru; Enhancing by Peter Rutherford

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