Updated On: 22 July, 2016 08:36 AM IST | | Agencies
<p>Two-time Olympic pole vault gold medallist Yelena Isinbayeva livid after Court of Arbitration dashes dope-tainted Russia’s Rio Olympics hopes</p>

Yelena Isinbaeva
Moscow: Russian athletes yesterday reacted with a mixture of anger and despair after the Court of Arbitration for Sport dashed their dreams of competing at the Rio Olympics by rejecting an appeal against a ban for doping.

Russian pole vaulter Yelena Isinbaeva during the IAAF Golden League Golden event at Rome in 2009. PIC/GETTY IMAGES