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Russian Olympic officials appeal to sports court against suspension by IOC

The entrance of the headquarters of the Paris 2024 Olympics Games is pictured Sunday, Aug. 13, 2023 in Saint-Denis, outside Paris. (AP Photo/Michel Euler, File) The entrance of the headquarters of the Paris 2024 Olympics Games is pictured Sunday, Aug. 13, 2023 in Saint-Denis, outside Paris. (AP Photo/Michel Euler, File)
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LAUSANNE, Switzerland -

The Russian Olympic Committee has appealed to the Court of Arbitration for Sports against a suspension by the IOC last month for incorporating Ukrainian sports councils.

CAS said Monday it has registered the appeal but that "it is not possible to indicate a time frame" for a verdict by its panel of judges. A hearing is likely to be held in Lausanne, Switzerland, which is home to the court and the International Olympic Committee.

The legal dispute should have no effect on Russian athletes preparing to qualify for, and compete at, the Paris Olympics next year.

The IOC previously said any Russian athletes accepted as neutral individuals to compete in Paris could be invited directly via their sport's world governing body in a process bypassing the ROC.

The latest Russia-IOC dispute was provoked by the Russian Olympic body incorporating the sports councils in four regions in occupied eastern Ukraine as its own members.

Imposing the suspension last month, the IOC said the Russian action "constitutes a breach of the Olympic Charter because it violates the territorial integrity of the NOC of Ukraine."

The ROC made a similar move in 2016 to incorporate sports councils in the Crimea region which had been annexed by Russia two years earlier. The IOC did not issue a suspension that time.

CAS said Monday the Russian appeal asks for the ROC to be reinstated "benefiting from all rights and prerogatives granted by the Olympic Charter."

The suspension removes the right of the ROC to get a share of Olympic broadcast and sponsor money worth millions of dollars in each four-year Olympic funding cycle. Russian officials reportedly have been weighing legal action to access the money not being paid due to economic sanctions during the war in Ukraine.

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