LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — Russian sports minister Mikhail Degtyaryov said on Tuesday the country’s skiers and snowboarders won a court ruling to get the chance to apply to compete as neutral athletes for qualification events to the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics.

Degtyaryov posted on social media that an appeal from Russia to the Court of Arbitration for Sportoverturned a blanket ban imposed by the International Ski and Snowboard Federation (FIS).

CAS has not published its ruling, which would be another legal win for Russian and Belarusian winter sports athletes after nearly four years of exclusion from international competitions during the war on Ukraine.

In October, a similar appeal to CAS by the Russian luge federation and athletes ruled against a long-standing blanket ban based

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