FI* FIG Office,: --- Ms Irina Deriugina (UKR), member of the FIG Rhythmic Gymnastics Technical Committee, has appealed to the Court of Arbitration for Sports (CAS) in Lausanne against the sanctions issued her by the FIG Presidential Commission and revised by the FIG Appeal Tribunal. The hearing will take place on July 28, 2008 at the Court of Arbitration for Sports (CAS) in Lausanne.
At its meeting in Cape Town on May 21, 2008, the FIG Presidential Commission sanctioned Ms Deriugina as follows:
F.I.G. Sanktions...:
• Suspension of Ms Deriugina from her function as a member of the RG TC and any other official function within the FIG effective immediately and until the end of the current cycle (December 31, 2008), as well as suspension from any future official function within the FIG until the end of the 2013 – 2016 cycle;
• Exclusion of Ms Deriugina from participation in any activity of a FIG Committee or Commission effective immediately and until the end of the 2013 – 2016 cycle;
• Suspension of Ms Deriugina from participation in any official FIG event (Olympic Games and all other Multisport Games, World Championships, Continental Championships, World Cup Final, World Cup Series and all international competitions organised by the FIG affiliated member federations) as a delegation member, effective immediately and until the end of the 2013 – 2016 cycle;
• Withdrawal of Ms Deriugina’s RG judge’s brevet effective immediately and until the end of the 2013 – 2016 cycle.
Ms Deriugina appealed these decisions, an appeal which the FIG Appeal Tribunal sustained at its meeting of July 1, 2008 in Geneva, granting termination of sanctions at the end of the 2009 – 2012 cycle.
* Source: fig press release, July 22