VIENNA (AP) — Russian pole vaulter Yelena Isinbayeva says she will sue after the IAAF upheld the country’s ban from international track and field competition.
Isinbayeva tells Russia’s Tass agency the decision is “a breach of human rights,” adding that she will follow through on an earlier plan to take the case to “a court of human rights.”
It was not immediately clear which court she meant.
If Russia is barred from the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, the 34-year-old Isinbayeva says of the Russian national track and field championships, which start Monday, that “this competition could be the final one in my career.