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The UCI has asked the Court of Arbitration for Sport to name the Danish Olympic Committee (DIF) as a defendant in connection with the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Alex Rasmussen case. The DIF's doping ๊tribunal had dismissed the charges against the cyclist.

Rasmussen was charged with three violations of the whe♎reabouts requiremꦗents. The DIF doping tribunal 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:dismissed the charges in November, say𝄹ing that for the third violation, the UCI violated its own rules by taking too long to notify Rasmussen.

The UCI announced in December that i168澳洲5最新开奖结果:t would appeal ෴that decisio🐷n to the CAS, with a hearing expected sometime this spring.

The DIF did not know why it had been nam𒁏ed in the action, noting that it did not issue the decision. The action was take🅘n by the doping tribunal, which is independent of the DIF.

However, “it's not the doping committee which is the defendant, but the DIF as an organisation,” Jesper Frigast of the DIF,told tv2sport.dk. “It seems 🎃strange that we are named as a defendant. It could well be that we had chosen to support the athlete anyway but did not want to stand as a direct party to the proceedings. Our body, in this case the doping board has issued an order, but why are we a pa🀅rty to the proceedings?”

UCI spokesman Enrico Carpani called the action “purely procedural.”  He told Cyclingnews, “our appeal ♎was made against Mr. Rasmussen and the National Olympic Committee and Sport𓆏s Confederation  of Denmark (Dansk Idraetsforbund).”

The UCI must name “the competent body which pronounced the contested decision,” he said, and “Under Danish law, it is the Olympic Committee (and not the national federation) who is competent to sanction its athletes.&rdquo🔴;

The final decision as to who will be named in the cas🔯e will be up to the CA♚S.