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

russia following decisions by the 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