Neither swimmer has ever been banned from competing for a positive test, and have repeatedly said they are clean athletes. But boxing, golf, gymnastics and taekwondo have yet to announce the results of their inquiries.
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All of Russia’s weightlifters were banned from the Rio Olympics late on Friday for doping for what the worldwide federation called “extremely shocking” results that brought the sport into “disrepute”.
The IOC panel consists of three executive board members: Ugur Erdener, the IOC medical commission chairman, Claudia Bokel, head of the athletes commission and Juan Antonio Samaranch Jr., vice president of the Modern Pentathlon federation.
A panel of arbitrators will hear the case and issue a ruling.
Vladimir Morozov and Nikita Lobinsev appealed to CAS seeking to overturn their bans over doping allegations.
The International Weightlifting Federation said the “integrity of the weightlifting sport has been seriously damaged on multiple times and levels by the Russians”.
Among those banned, Artem Okulov is a world champion while Ruslan Albegov took a bronze medal at the 2012 London Games and Tatiana Kashirina a silver.
“The swimmers also request that the decision of the FINA bureau of July 25 2016, declaring both of them ineligible for the Olympic Games in Rio, be set aside”.
The IOC executive board decided last Sunday not to ban the entire Russian Olympic team from the games.
He wrote in an open letter on Facebook: “Throughout the last 6 years I’ve been drug tested by doping control agencies at least once a month”.
Athletics was the first sport touched by the doping controversy.
The 31st summer Olympic Games will be held in Rio de Janeiro on August 5-21, 2016.
Putin addressing Russian athletes said “no concrete, evidence-based accusations” had been brought against Russian athletes.
“It has always been the case in the Olympics”.
IOC President Thomas Bach was at the opening of Rio de Janeiro’s newest metro link today, which is part of the Olympic legacy for the city of Rio de Janeiro.
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Further, any athlete who had been sanctioned in the past would be barred (including track’s former whistleblower Yulia Stepanova, who was previously cleared to compete under a neutral flag).
