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A man walks from the Russian National Olympic Committee building in Moscow, on Tuesday, July 7, 2026. (AP Photo\/Pavel Bednyakov)<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n

LAUSANNE, Switzerland \u2014 Russia\u2019s track and field federation says it has gone to the Court of Arbitration for Sport to overturn a World Athletics ruling suspending its athletes from international events due to the war in Ukraine<\/a> .<\/p>

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World Athletics excluded all athletes from Russia and its ally Belarus from its international events in March 2022, days after Russian forces invaded Ukraine.<\/p>\n

It kept that suspension in place at a council meeting last week. Since then, the International Olympic Committee has eased its restrictions<\/a> on Russia ahead of the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics \u2014 something the Kremlin<\/a> hailed as an \u201cimportant step\u201d \u2014 and recommended other sports bodies do the same.<\/p>\n

\u201cRussian Athletics notes that World Athletics\u2019 decision affects the fundamental interests of athletics in Russia and restricts Russian athletes\u2019 right to compete, on grounds that Russian Athletics considers discriminatory,\u201d the Russian track federation said in a statement.<\/p>\n

\u201cRussian Athletics continues to pursue all available legal measures to protect the interests of Russian athletes.\u201d<\/p>\n

World Athletics didn\u2019t immediately respond to a request for comment and CAS has yet to confirm it\u2019s registered a case.<\/p>

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World Athletics President Sebastian Coe said last week his organization discussed options for \u201ca conditional pathway back into international competition\u201d for Russian and Belarusian athletes, but opted against.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe presented options for the council to consider on this matter, however, the original decision remains on the sanctions that protect the integrity and fairness of our competitions, with no tangible movement towards peace negotiations having materialized,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Russia hasn\u2019t competed under its own flag at a world athletics championships since 2015, when the Russian track federation was suspended<\/a> over widespread doping.<\/p>\n

A program allowing its athletes to compete under a neutral flag was ended in 2022 after the invasion of Ukraine. World Athletics\u2019 original doping suspension was lifted in 2023.<\/p>\n

No Russians competed in Olympic athletics at the 2024 Paris Games because the qualification system is overseen by World Athletics, even though the IOC allowed neutral athletes<\/a> in other sports.<\/p>

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AP sports: https:\/\/apnews.com\/sports<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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