Russian skiers appeal to sports’ highest court over ban from Olympic qualifying events

The Associated Press

· Posted: Nov 06, 2025 12:47 PM EST | Last Updated: November 6

Russian skiers are challenging their continuing prohibition from competitions arsenic they effort to suffice for the 2026 Winter Olympics, the Court of Arbitration for Sport said Thursday.

Six skiers, six Para athletes and the Russian skis federation person filed an entreaty against a determination past period by the International Ski and Snowboard Federation to widen their full prohibition during the country's warfare connected Ukraine.

CAS gave nary timetable for a proceeding successful what volition beryllium a fast-tracked lawsuit 3 months earlier the Milan-Cortina Olympics unfastened successful February.

The imaginable for different ineligible triumph for Russia seemed to summation past week erstwhile a antithetic CAS sheet of judges upheld a situation by Russian lugers that requires the International Luge Federation to statesman a process of assessing athletes for approved neutral status.

Neutral presumption tin beryllium approved successful astir Olympic sports according to International Olympic Committee guidance for athletes who person not publically supported the subject penetration of Ukraine and bash not person ties to subject oregon authorities information agencies.

Some Russian and Belarusian athletes competed astatine the Paris Summer Games past twelvemonth without their nationalist flag, anthem and squad colours.

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