MOSCOW (AP) – A Russian race walker stands to lose his gold medal from the 2012 London Olympics after the Court of Arbitration for Sport on Thursday rejected the selective punishments imposed by Russian authorities in six doping cases.
The Switzerland-based court ruled that the Russian anti-doping agency, known as RUSADA, had wrongly imposed bans which were timed in a way that the six athletes’ results were not annulled and allowed them to keep major titles.
Russia will also lose an Olympic silver medal and two world championship gold medals as a result of the CAS decision.
Sergei Kirdyapkin is set to be stripped of his Olympic gold medal in the 50-kilometer walk. The medal stands to go to Australia’s Jared Tallent, subject to ratification by track and field’s governing body and the International Olympic Committee.
“History has been rewritten tonight,” Tallent said in a statement released by Athletics Australia. “I am the Olympic champion and justice has been served.”