Overview

• CAS announced the 75-year-old Australian is leaving his posts as CAS president and ICAS chair.
• Michael Lenard, 70, the ICAS vice-president and a former 1984 Olympic handball player, will serve as interim chair, with an election expected in 2027.
• Coates cited a six-month course of chemotherapy that has left him unable to undertake foreign travel.
• During Coates’s tenure since 2010, CAS says registered cases and secretariat staff tripled and the ICAS budget grew by 20 million Swiss francs.
• The Lausanne-based court remains the top sports tribunal under Swiss law, though a recent European Court of Justice ruling allows EU national courts to review its decisions.