Marathon Swimming: The appeal of Aurelie Muller is dismissed
Press Release
This article is written in English with a French translation underneath.
19 August 2016 – The ad hoc Division of the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) at the Olympic Games Rio 2016 rejected the appeal of the French swimmer Aurélie Müller who challenged her disqualification from the 10km-race by the International Swimming Federation (FINA) on 15 August 2016, following an incident at the end of the race.
The CAS Panel in charge of this matter retained jurisdiction but rejected the appeal. It has considered that the dispute was related to a “field-of-play decision” which, according to long standing CAS jurisprudence, is unable to be reviewed by CAS except in the event that there has been arbitrariness or bad faith in arriving at such decision, which was not proven in the present case.
The full award with the grounds will be published on the CAS website as soon as it will be available.
