Russian President Vladimir Putin has previously said it would be humiliating for Russia to compete without national symbols. "Secondly, I don't see any reason for a boycott by the Russian athletes because we allow the clean athletes there to participate." The chairman of that disciplinary panel, Swiss lawyer Denis Oswald, reported about prosecuting Russian athletes implicated in cheating at the 2014 Sochi Games. By Monday, 25 Russians had been disqualified from the Sochi Games and banned from the Olympics for life, and 11 medals were stripped. The banned Russian athletes have said they will appeal against the Oswald judgments at the Court of Arbitration for Sport in Lausanne.

Source: India Today December 05, 2017 18:57 UTC