Lausanne, Feb 22 (UNI) The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has rejected urgent requests for provisional measures filed by five Russian cross country skiers – Alexey Petukhov, Evgenia Shapovalova, Maxim Vylegzhanin, Alexander Legkov and Evgeniy Belov.
The athletes sought to stay the execution of the decisions taken by the FIS Doping Panel on January 25, 2017 (Alexander Legov and Evgeniy Belov) and on February 6, 2017 (Alexey Petukhov, Evgenia Shapovalova and Maxim Vylegzhanin), which confirmed their provisional suspensions, in order to be able to compete at the 2017 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships that will take place in Lahti, Finland from February 22 to March 5, 2017.