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CAS decision lifts doping bans for 28 Russian athletes, reinstates Sochi results

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Two separate panels of the Court of Arbitration for Sport have fully or partially struck down International Olympic Committee sanctions for 39 Russian athletes in the Sochi Olympics.

In a decision announced Thursday in Pyeongchang, CAS ruled that in 28 cases the evidence “was found to be insufficient” to establish the athletes committed an anti-doping rule violation.

The decisions reinstate the results for those athletes, which included medalists Alexander Tretiakov and Elena Nikitina in skeleton; Alexander Legkov and Maksim Vylegzhanin in cross-country skiing; Albert Demchenko and Tatyana Ivanova in luge; and Olga Fatkulina in speedskating.