On July 21, the Court of Arbitration for Sport rejected an appeal from 68 Russian athletes and the Olympic Committee of Russia. Subsequently, the Russian national team was removed from participation in the Rio Olympics.
On Friday, Isinbayeva made a statement through her Twitter account, suggesting that the true motive for her elimination is her training in Russia.
“WADA and IOC don’t have reservations about me,” she said. “IAAF also has no claims against me regarding the doping issue. I’m clean and honest here. My entire career speaks to that. The only obstacle that keeps me from competing at the Olympics is the fact that for the past two years I have been living and training in Russia.”
“There’s still no clarity on this issue, there are no answers. I don’t stop training, in hope that this injustice will end soon,” she wrote on her Instagram page, calling the media to help her “to dig down the truth and ask [IAAF chief] Sebastian Coe the reason,” for her removal from competition.
“I don’t want to give up and accept such an unjust and snide decision on me by IAAF! If there’s still a chance to compete in Rio, I want to use it!”
