CAS dismisses Olympic ban on doping offenders

Oct 6, 2011

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The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) cleared the way today for several dozen former doping offenders to compete at next year’s London 2012 Olympics, by ruling the ‘Osaka’ clause “invalid and unenforceable”, that bars from the Games anyone who has served a suspension of six months or more since the last Olympics. Read for instance SwimNews, Reuters and the official CAS press release.

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Great Britain now technically banned from London 2012Swimmer's Daily

November 21, 2011

[…] which means that the host nation is technically unable to compete at London 2012. The row is over CAS/WADA lifting the ‘Osaka Rule’ that bars from the next games anyone who has served a doping suspension of 6 months or more, and […]

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