Olympics: Court upholds doping ban for 47 Russians athletes, coaches

All 47 Russian athletes and coaches challenging a doping ban keeping them out of the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics had their appeals rejected by the Court of Arbitration for Sport on Friday, the day of the opening ceremony.Among the 47 subject to the ban stemming from state-backed doping at the 2014 Sochi Games was short track skater Victor Ahn, who was born in South Korea but became a Russian citizen in time for Sochi, where he won three gold medals."Today, the ad hoc division of the Court of Arbitration for Sport dismissed the application filed by 32 Russian athletes against the Internation…READ FULL ARTICLE