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"Intersex" athletes await CAS ruling
Premium article - August 17, 2017
Caster Semenya, the South African middle distance runner who won a gold medal at the World Athletics Championship in London on Sunday, is among several hyperandrogenous athletes who will find out next month if a panel at the Court of Arbitration for Sport will strike out regulations that would force them to medically reduce their natural testosterone levels or be barred from competition. In a press release published on the CAS website recently, a panel chaired by Australian judge and arbitrator Annabelle...
Chelsea and Salah cleared by CAS panel
Premium article - July 03, 2017
A panel at the Court of Arbitration for Sport has dismissed an appeal by Italian football club Fiorentina relating to its failed attempt to extend an agreement for the loan of Egyptian winger Mohamed Salah from Chelsea Football Club. According to a press release on the CAS website, the panel found that neither Salah nor his former employer Chelsea had been guilty of any wrongdoing after the player returned from Fiorentina following a loan spell in 2015. Fiorentina, one of Italy's largest...
CAS will hear Palestine claim over West Bank teams
Premium article - June 14, 2017
The Palestinian Football Association has made good on a threat to file a claim at the Court of Arbitration for Sport over Israeli clubs based in the disputed territory of the West Bank - after FIFA delayed making a decision on the issue at its most recent congress. In a press release on the CAS website, the Lausanne-based court confirmed it has registered the appeal by the Palestinian FA, and said that a tribunal would be constituted shortly. FIFA is once again using a team from Levy Kaufmann-Kohler...
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