The Russian pole vaulter Yelena Isinbayeva was elected to the International Olympic Committee athletes’ commission on Thursday, despite being barred from the Rio Games over doping allegations. The double Olympic champion and reigning world record-holder was excluded, along with more than 100 of her team-mates, following revelations of systemic, state-backed cheating in Russian sport.

The IOC said she had received 1,365 votes from her peers and would serve an eight-year term on the commission, the body that represents athletes’ interests and is a link between competitors and Games organisers. She will be joined by three other athletes, one each from Germany, Korea and Hungary. “I will never agree with, and never forgive, my exclusion from the Olympics.”