ROC: Russia had good OLY results despite CAS ruling

The head of the Russian Olympic Committee said the decision taken by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) to stop several athletes from competing in Tokyo 2020 has not affected the performance of the team in Japan.

"The CAS decision was not any sort of problem for our athletes from the perspective of sporting results, and we have all seen this with our own eyes" Stanislav Pozdnyakov told journalists during a news conference in Tokyo on Saturday.

The country has obtained more than 60 medals in Tokyo, beating the 56 it won in Rio 2016.

The World Anti-Doping Agency intervened last month to stop several Russians from competing based on evidence from the Moscow testing laboratory that was shut down in 2015.

The database and samples from the long-sealed lab were finally given in 2019 to WADA, which prepared and shared about 300 potential cases with governing bodies of Olympic sports.

Fallout from the database case led to a ban on Russia's national identity at the Tokyo Olympics and the 2022 Beijing Winter Games.

The 335 athletes accredited for Tokyo are officially competing for ROC, the acronym for the Russian Olympic Committee.

The word "Russia" is banned from their uniforms.

"The absence of doping cases in our team, this is obviously the result of the work that has been done in recent years," Pozdnyakov said.