The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has been given one day to provide an explanation regarding alleged forged signatures on documents presented as evidence against Russian biathletes accused of doping.

On Monday the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) considered a claim by Russian lawyer Alexey Panich who said that IOC documents contained fake signatures of former Russian Moscow Anti-Doping laboratory chief Grigory Rodchenkov.

According to TASS, the IOC will need to provide an explanation regarding the documents – the key evidence against the Russian athletes – by Tuesday.

On Monday, CAS opened an appeal hearing on the case involving three Russian biathletes – Olga Zaitseva, Yana Romanova and Olga Vilukhina – who had been slapped with a lifetime ban and stripped of medals over alleged doping violations.
The athletes retired from sport in 2017, but filed an appeal with CAS attempting to overturn the decision imposed by the IOC on the verge of the 2018 Olympics in South Korea.
The athletes are seeking monetary compensation for damaged inflicted to their reputation and sporting caree

Source: RT