Key legal question
Whether the TAS proceedings were tainted by violations of the right to be heard and equality of arms when legal aid and the sole-arbitrator composition were decided
Extracted holding
The complaint was inadmissible and, in any event, unfounded because the athlete failed to object timely before the arbitral tribunal and accepted the sole-arbitrator hearing.
Extracted reasoning
Procedural objections must be raised immediately in arbitration or they are forfeited. The record showed the parties accepted continuation before the sole arbitrator at the hearing, and the legal-aid decision was rendered by CIAS, not TAS.