London Olympics bronze medallist Vladimir Morozov became the first to appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport against an IOC order to global federations to exclude athletes named in a report alleging state-run doping in Russia.
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So far at least 117 individuals from the 387 that the Russian Olympic Committee wanted to enter have been excluded.
The move by the two Olympic medal winners was announced as the IOC held two days of talks on fallout from the Russian Federation doping crisis.
Neither swimmer has ever been banned from competing for a positive test, and have repeatedly said they are clean athletes. Boxing, golf, gymnastics and taekwondo federations have yet to report their decisions.
The IOC has said that any Russian athlete with a prior sanction for doping would not be allowed into the games.
Morozov, a member of the 4x100m freestyle relay team that came third in 2012 in London, was one of seven Russian swimmers banned by the International Swimming Federation (FINA) following the IOC directive.
Any Russian who has served a doping suspension is automatically ruled out but others were also to be banned if they could not effectively “prove themselves clean”.
Individual decisions on Russian athletes have been referred to relevant global federations.
“Finally, the EB chose to delegate the final decision on acceptance of entries of Russian athletes to a review panel of the EB composed of three International Olympic Committee executive members, Ugur Erdener, who is the chair of the medical commission, Claudia Bokel, who is chair of the athletes commission, and Juan Antonio Samaranch”, Adams told reporters.
International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach speaks during the IOC Executive Board Meeting ahead of the 2016 Summer Olympics on July 30, 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
“It has always been the case in the Olympics”.
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The IOC earlier this month set criteria for Russians to be eligible to compete in Rio after revelations of state-backed doping in the country.
