Bakers, Blackstone to fight BOA corner over Olympics doping ban
Baker & McKenzie and Blackstone Chambers are acting for the British Olympic Association (BOA) as it goes to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), seeking to preserve its 19-year-old bylaw permanently excluding athletes guilty of doping offences from participating at the Olympics. The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) contests that the BOA’s lifetime ban is ‘illegal’ […]