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Russia lawyer calls CAS Paralympic ruling unjust

Wednesday, August 24 2016 by SNTV
  • A lawyer representing Russian athletes banned from the 2016 Paralympics Games says they have been "deprived of their fundamental rights, the right to do sport, the right of an occupation, the right of non-discrimination" after the Court of Arbitration for Sport on Tuesday (23rd August) upheld the IPC's decision to bar the country.

    SOUNDBITE: (Russian) Alexei Karpenko, lawyer representing the Russian athletes:

    "The Swiss Federal Court, (there is) a possibility to appeal, we will consider the perspectives. I can't tell you anything about them yet because first of all we need to examine the motives (of the CAS decision). Only the operative part has been announced so far, we are banned and that's it. We need to understand the reasoning."

    SOUNDBITE: (Russian) Alexei Karpenko, lawyer representing the Russian athletes:

    "The International Paralympic Committee has violated everything possible, all procedures connected with passing judgment. The Russian Paralympic Committee was deprived of the opportunity to defend itself, to provide arguments and proof. It was given a cynical and derisive term of seven days - I mean the correspondence that preceded the decision of August 7th to remove the shortcomings of the Russian doping system - which was absolutely impossible, a priori."

    SOUNDBITE: (Russian) Alexei Karpenko, lawyer representing the Russian athletes:

    "Athletes, the Paralympians were denied the right to present arguments and proof of their cleanness, despite the fact they were checked by all possible anti-doping laboratories. The para-athletes were deprived of their fundamental rights, the right to do sport, the right of an occupation, the right of non-discrimination. All these rights are affirmed in the UN convention on the rights of persons with disabilities. All these rights were abused today."

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