FILE PHOTO: The Court of Arbitration for Sports (CAS) is pictured in Lausanne, Switzerland, November 15, 2017. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian athletes will be barred from competing at major international events, including the Olympics, under the country's flag until 2022 after a Swiss court on Thursday upheld doping sanctions but halved the original four-year ban.
The ruling will leave Russian athletes without their flag and national anthem at next year's Tokyo Olympics, the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics and at the 2022 soccer World Cup in Qatar, a severe blow to Russian sport which has been tarnished in recent years by a string of doping scandals.
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