An Article by Aahna Mehrotra BACKGROUND The last several years, on several occasions, have witnessed geopolitical turmoil affect sporting events. In 2022, we witnessed the Wimbledon Championships ban Russian and Belarusian players from competing1 and the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) being dragged to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) by the Football Union of Russia due to the…
An athlete or a player cannot win unless he or she or they can participate in the competition. Several of the most significant legal challenges in sports have concerned the right of a particular individual to play in a sport or to compete in the event. It is fascinating how many of the cases have reflected the changing attitudes or…
INTRODUCTION With the Olympics Games (“Games”) in Rio all set to begin, doping controversies seem to have broken out like never before. The International Olympic Committee (“IOC”) has lifted the blanket ban it had earlier imposed on Russian athletes and left it on the individual sporting federations to decide their fate. They have, however, made ineligible any Russian athlete who…