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July 19, 2021
(Reuters) – The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) dismissed cases against Russian swimmers Alexandr Kudashev and Veronika Andrusenko on Monday after they had been suspended for suspected anti-doping rule violations, clearing them to compete at the Tokyo Olympics.
Swimming’s world governing body FINA provisionally suspended the pair last week based on evidence provided by the World Anti-Doping Agency stemming from its examination of materials recovered from the former Moscow Anti-Doping Laboratory.
After an expedited hearing of the case ahead of the July 23-Aug. 8 Games, CAS said in a statement https://www.tas-cas.org/fileadmin/user upload/CAS Media Release 8160.pdf it had dismissed FINA’s charges.