The Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) has appealed the decision by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to suspend its membership, the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) announced in a statement on November 6. The IOC suspended the ROC on October 12 over its decision to incorporate sports organizations from Ukraine's partially occupied regions of Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk, and Zaporizhzhya. The IOC said the move constitutes a breach of the Olympic Charter since it violates the territorial integrity of the Ukrainian Olympic Committee. Under the suspension, the ROC is no longer entitled to operate as a National Olympic Committee and cannot receive any funding from the Olympic Movement.
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