For 30 years now, the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has set up a so-called “ad hoc Division” at every Olympic Games. In a very short timeframe, the ad hoc Division decides on legal disputes arising during the Olympic Games. For each edition of the Olympic Games, a small number of CAS arbitrators are selected to be on call for the duration of the Olympic Games to adjudicate on these disputes.
Dr Heiner Kahlert will be the only German arbitrator in the ad hoc Division at the Paris Olympics, together with 11 other arbitrators from all continents. To reduce the carbon footprint of the CAS ad hoc Division, for the first time three of the arbitrators, including Dr Kahlert, will not be on site at the Olympic Games but will be available in their offices to decide arbitration cases.
Further information on the CAS ad hoc Division (as well as the Anti-Doping Division, which adjudicates as a first instance) can be found in today’s CAS press release.
