The CAS Ad hoc Division rejects the appeal filed by Jamaican bobsledder Jazmine Fenlator-Victorian
Press Release
7th February 2022
The Ad hoc Division of the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) registered a new application concerning the reallocation of quota places in bobsleigh/skeleton for the Olympic Winter Games Beijing 2022.
OG 22/07 Jazmine Fenlator-Victorian (Jamaica) v/ International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation (IBSF). The Applicant requested the CAS Ad hoc Division:
1) To set aside the IBSF’s athlete point ranking table for the Beijing 2022 Quota Allocation 2-woman bobsleigh; 2) To recalculate the point rankings for the Beijing 2022 Quota Allocation 2-woman bobsleigh based only on races that actually occurred and without retroactively double counting any races; 3) To grant the final 2-woman quota spot to the Jamaican NOC instead of the French NOC; and 4) To order the ISBF and IOC to add an additional quota spot to be allocated to the French NOC to permit greater inclusion of female athletes in the Beijing Winter Games.
A Panel of arbitrators composed of Mr Fabio Iudica, President, (Italy), Ms Maria A. Gwynn (Paraguay) and Ms Vesna Bergant Rakočević (Slovenia) held a hearing by video-conference in the evening of 6 February 2022 from the offices of the CAS Ad Hoc Division in Beijing.
The Panel issued its decision earlier today and dismissed the application. The full award with reasons
will be published shortly.
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