they appealed them to what's called the court of arbitration for sport c.a.'s they are the ultimate decision making body in the world of sport not just the olympics and c.a.'s distant declared that eleven of those athletes they upheld the ban but the other twenty eight they said there was insufficient evidence they said this is not to say that these twenty eight athletes are innocent. but that we could not come up with the actual evidence linking them with the state sponsored doping scheme that took place in russia and what does that mean exactly that russian athletes participate from russia but they don't represent russia how does that work good question i mean they you know since they can have the word russia on their their outfits but they can't be the official russian colors at these different colors. it's kind of. a lot of people look at the international community as being wishy washy for trying to come up with a compromise to not punish clean russian athletes. and then they did punish a couple of the officials hard core so it's it'll be weird it's an od

does this ruling from the c.a.'s come as a surprise it does it does i think a chalk most of us and they reasoning is basically that the court of arbitration has said that the evidence is insufficient so they doubt they sex at all the information they broke it down and they said that the evidence that was put forth forward by the international olympic committee that it did not have the i'm quoting them right now did not have the same weight in each individual case so i think corrective the overall i think the evidence was strong but i think when applied on a case by case basis they just didn't have it was just wasn't enough so that they couldn't really prove that these individual athletes had violated and he doping. ok terms of the very last minute for the twenty eight cleared russian athletes who will now it looks like will be competing and. it's but it's really really complicated it's still really complicated because these twenty eight athletes they can't they still have to apply for entry and that entry of course

thank you well the course of our tracing for sport the c.a.'s has turned down an appeal by forty seven russian athletes and coaches to compete at those winter games the russians have been banned from taking part by the international olympic committee over state sponsored doping install chief porn years ago they argued they've been wrongly executed for making it excluded from the games but the i.o.c. his decision was not unfair or discriminatory. now the opening ceremony for the twenty eighteen winter olympics is just a couple of hours away and that means on all russia preparations for host south korea and china politics and doping scandals have dominated much of the coverage but for most people in south korea that's just background noise to the main event. the olympic torch is on to the heinz stretch. the final few stages of the flames journey brought it ever near its appealing chang and the games opening ceremony as the torch made its way along the coastline athletes and fans were gearing up for two and a half weeks of winter sports action wit

in sochi four years ago they argued that they had been wrongly accused excluded from those games but c.a.'s said that the i.o.c. his decision wasn't unfair or discriminatory. and the olympics is playing out under a political spotlight as well with hosts south korea using the games to call relations with the north that approach though did prove popular with everyone. demonstrators outside the olympic stadium gave the north koreans a hostile reception they clashed with riot police and made their feelings towards the north known. real he. was. making. you know yelling you're in the. real we want to hold our own. north korea's olympic delegation mocked and historic first it included kim jong the youngest sister of leader kim jong un she's the first member of north korea's ruling dynasty to cross the border since the korean war south korean president well come to by extending the hunter friendship a sign of his high diplomatic ambitions for the games but not everyone was convinced that greeting the delegation with an open hand was the right approach. to be sure you. know the people of south k

loyal i'm assuming you know i found out about the decision during my training c.a.'s decided to overturn my disqualification my band i had only positive thoughts in my head about that i've been ready to ski for a long long time keeping up my training but i had a question right away what about the olympics are we able to dispute this and get an invitation but i was waiting for the results of the appeal when i came back from practice it's amazing yes then my skeleton team started congratulating each other such a relief when not guilty and the whole public will know that a lot of people thought we date but only those close to us knew it's not tree. or you say they are not guilty or you say they are guilty and they have fruit that there is not enough proof for a doping offense hence they are not guilty and this is very important also because it makes to make law report to become not in bases which is enough to convict athletes and everything that was up to now was based on the mclaren report and if this is now not a basis enough to convict athletes then i do not understa

protecting the trees is the name of c.a.'s here in the southwest of the country the ngo recently installed a modern shear butter production unit here two hundred used to be very has been training some of the women from the local village of super gun. crushing the shia colonels provides the raw material for the better. the work is physically much easier the women are able to produce more butter and the quality has also improved so they've seen their income go up significantly. at the future of our children school fees and health care for our kids. the hopes that by improving the women's financial situation this will in turn help to protect trees. it isn't hard to the families of these women who are chopping down the trees so if we can convince them of the importance of protecting the trees they can in turn help to persuade others and when they see they can earn more from the butter they'll be more motivated to protect that source of income and . now get on. the projects in bikini count on the women and their families realizing

careers had been dashed loyal i'm assuming you know i found out about the decision during my training c.a.'s decided to overturn my disqualification my band i had only positive thoughts in my head about that i've been ready to ski for a long long time keeping up my training but i had a question right away what about the olympics are we able to dispute this and get an invitation but i was waiting for the results of the appeal when i came back from practice it's amazing news then my scouts and team started congratulating each other such a relief when not guilty and the whole public will know that a lot of people thought we date but only those close to us knew it's not true. the old vehicles i've been training with my pushchair the whole season and now because of what's happened i've been paired with someone else we'll have to adapt our techniques and make adjustments for way differences and work a lot in our start. give you some my mojo is for me and for those who can't be there the whole situation has only me me angrier and even more determined to win. or you say they are not guilty or you

their careers were finished loyalists in the north i found out about the decision during my training c.a.'s decided to overturn my disqualification my ban i had only positive thoughts in my head about that and i've been ready to ski for a long long time keeping up my training but i had a question right away what about the olympics are we able to dispute this and get an invitation but first thing you know i was waiting for the results of the appeal when i came back from practice it's amazing yes then my skeleton team started congratulating each other such a relief when not guilty and the whole public will know that a lot of people thought we date but only those close to us knew it's not true. i've been training with my push through the whole season and now because of what's happened i've been paired with someone else we'll have to adapt our techniques and make adjustments for way differences and work a lot in our start. give you some moto is for me and for those who can't get there the whole situation has only me me angrier and even more determined to win. twenty eight sportsman's of russ

boiling a sudden you know i found out about the decision during my training c.a.'s decided to overturn my disqualification my ban i had only positive thoughts in my head about that i've been ready to ski for a long long time keeping up my training but i had a question right away what about the olympics are we able to dispute this and get an invitation but i was waiting for the results of a pill when i came back from practice it's amazing yes then my skeleton team started congratulating each other such a relief when not guilty and the whole public will know that a lot of people thought we date but only those close to us knew it's not true. because i've been training with my push through the whole season and now because of what's happened i've been paired with someone else we'll have to adapt our techniques and make adjustments for way differences and work a lot in the restart. give you some moto is for me and for those who can't get there the whole situation has only made me angrier and even more determined to to win.

international olympic committee and the court of arbitration for sports over doping allegations now c.a.'s overturned the lifetime olympic bans for twenty eight russian athletes at the start of february but then did a sudden u.-turn saying it actually supported the i.o.c. decision not to allow the athletes to compete in the winter games our correspondent in the trunk o. has been speaking exclusively with the secretary general of c.i.s. to find out more about the conflicting decisions. after the court of arbitration for sport said no to forty seven russian athletes and coaches just as the chuang winter games were getting underway perhaps the number one conclusion that came up on some people's mind was that presumption of innocence doesn't apply to the russian doping scandal well the cast secretary-general didn't literally say that the key law principle didn't work for cas but see for yourself how much it applied to the russians the fact that the unable to show the guilt of an athlete doesn't mean that the truth has nothing to do although with the case really in the sense this is a logica

sit down with c.a.'s representatives and russian representatives and get things done various time too and allow these athletes who who have been cleared who are innocent who have been shown to be innocent by the c.i.s. to compete athletes from all over the world have started to arrive at the olympic facilities and the south korean city of young chang among them are russian athletes who are allowed to compete as a limb pick athletes from russia under a neutral flag earlier the i.o.c. is huge strict rules regarding their uniforms. the uniform showed a bear the words a limb pick athletes from russia or its acronym or it should also be of a single do you will color we know it will be grey no russian flag or any of its colors red white or blue are allowed to be shown though that has not stopped one russian design company from showing its support for russia's athletes by launching a special line of t. shirts and these feature slogans like truth is our drug and you know our flag punning on the acronym or we spo

and careers had been dashed loyalists and you know i found out about the decision during my training c.a.'s decided to overturn my disqualification my band i had only positive thoughts in my head about that i've been ready to ski for a long long time keeping up my training but i had a question right away what about the olympics are we able to dispute this and get an invitation but i was waiting for the results of a pill when i came back from practice it's amazing yes then my skeleton team started congratulating each other such a relief when not guilty and the whole public will know that a lot of people thought we date but only those close to us knew it's not tree. let's go live now to thomas bryant from the law. partners thanks for joining us good to have you on all water certainly seems to support the stance of reviewing appealing that decision by cas how does it appeal would work exactly. well let me first say that i'm a little bit surprised of virus reaction and of course also of the reaction of the i.o.c. and some of its executive committees members to the reaction of the cast i'm su

sit down with c.a.'s representatives and russian representatives and get things done there is time to and allow these athletes who have been cleared who are innocent who have been shown to be innocent by the c.i.s. to compete athletes from all over the world have started to arrive at the end i think facilities in the south korean city of pyong chang among them are russian athletes who were allowed to compete as a lympics athletes from russia under a neutral flag. the i.o.c. issued strict rules regarding the uniform. so the uniform should bend the woods a limb pick athletes from russia or its acronym or a r. it should also be of a single no dual color and we know it will be grey no russian flag or any of its colors red white blue are allowed now that didn't stop one russian design company from showing its support for russian athletes by creating an alternative uniform we spoke to one of the designers. or. is stupid to deprive people of their own country and identity because whatever uniform the athletes a

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