Matthieu Reeb, CAS Secretary General, leaves a press conference after speaking about Russian athletes. (Source: AP) Matthieu Reeb, CAS Secretary General, leaves a press conference after speaking about Russian athletes. (Source: AP)Twenty-eight Russian athletes have had their Olympic doping bans overturned and results from the 2014 Winter Games in Sochi reinstated after their appeals were upheld by sport’s highest tribunal on Thursday. Eleven other athletes were confirmed to have committed doping offences although CAS said it had reduced their lifetime Olympic bans to a suspension from this year’s Games. Russian sports minister Pavel Kolobkov said the IOC would be asked to allow the 28 athletes to compete in Pyeongchang.

Source: Indian Express February 01, 2018 09:41 UTC