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The ruling from the IOC stated that,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The ROC is not allowed to enter any athlete for the Olympic Games Rio 2016 who has ever been sanctioned for doping, even if he or she has served the sanction.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The aim of Efimova&#8217;s appeal was to have the ban overturned, however the CAS did not grant her the ability to compete. According to the CAS,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As a consequence, the appeal has been partially upheld on that limited ground but all other prayers for relief have been rejected, including 1) the request that Yuliya Efimova be directly declared eligible to participate in the Rio 2016 Olympic Games and 2) the request to oblige the IOC to accept the entry of Yuliya Efimova to compete in the Rio 2016 Olympic Games.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The International Olympic Committee holds the final decision, which is still considered pending.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not long after making the decision that Russian swimmers\u00a0Vlad Morozov and\u00a0Nikita Lobintsev were cleared to compete in the upcoming 2016 Rio Olympic Games, the international Court of Arbitration for Sport<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":215877,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[50558,25311],"class_list":["post-215876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-world","tag-2016-rio-olympic-games","tag-yuliya-efimova"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.3 (Yoast SEO v24.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\r\n<title>CAS Rules Yuliya Efimova Not Eligible To Compete At Rio Olympics; 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