Olympic Athletes from Russia

The Olympic flag as a symbol for the Olympic participants from Russia

Olympic Athletes from Russia ( German  Olympic athletes from Russia / Olympic athletes from Russia ), abbreviation OAR , is a name for Russian athletes who were allowed to start at the 2018 Winter Olympics after the suspension of Olimpijski komitet Rossii .

The prerequisites for participation were that the athlete had qualified for the Winter Games, did not take any doping substances and was not involved in the Russian "state doping" revealed in the McLaren Report , which was carried out on December 5, 2017 for the suspension of the Russian National Olympic Committee by the International Olympic Committee led.

The Olympic flag and the Olympic anthem were used as symbols of the team .

The CAS lifts athlete bans without affecting admission

Alexander Zhukov , the president of the suspended Russian NOK, announced that Russian athletes will appeal to the International Court of Justice (CAS). A week before the start of the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, the CAS judges lifted the lifelong Olympic bans for 28 Russian athletes on the grounds that the sanctions were void due to insufficient evidence and that the results from the 2014 Winter Games in Sochi would be valid again. However, 11 athletes were excluded. The IOC did not agree to this decision because it was of the opinion that the Russian National Olympic Committee ROC was still suspended due to the doping allegations, which is why only Russian athletes can participate in the Winter Games if invited by the IOC. Up until then, 169 Russian athletes were on the IOC's invitation list.

See also

• Independent Olympian
• Olympic history of Russia
• Olympic Winter Games 2018 / Participants (Olympic athletes from Russia)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IOC SUSPENDS RUSSIAN NOC AND CREATES A PATH FOR CLEAN INDIVIDUAL ATHLETES TO COMPETE IN PYEONGCHANG 2018 UNDER THE OLYMPIC FLAG. International Olympic Committee , December 5, 2017, accessed December 6, 2017 . 
2. ↑ Olympia: Russia's active only under a neutral flag. nachricht.at , December 5, 2017, accessed on December 6, 2017 . 
3. ↑ IOC ISSUES "CONDUCT GUIDELINES" FOR "OLYMPIC ATHLETE FROM RUSSIA" DELEGATION. olympic.org , January 26, 2018, accessed January 27, 2018 . 
4. ↑ CAS lifts doping bans for Russian athletes. Sports court embarrassed IOC. Zeit Online , February 1, 2018, accessed February 27, 2018 .