Russia’s weightlifters were banned from Rio 2016 by the sport’s worldwide governing body, but they have appealed to CAS.
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While more than 100 Russians – including the track and field team – have been banned from the games, more than 250 have so far been cleared to compete by the federations.
Each global federation responsible for a sport in the summer Games was asked by the IOC on Sunday to individually vet the anti-doping records of its Russian athletes before clearing them to compete.
The case involving the Russian and worldwide weightlifting federations will be dealt with on Wednesday, and a decision is expected the same day.
The Court of Arbitration for Sport is hearing four Russian appeals against bans from Rio.
WADA had demanded a blanket ban on Russian athletes in Rio following the McLaren report.
Dramatic footage of the competition has been uploaded to YouTube – and it couldn’t really be more Russian in its perception of masculinaty.
He also questioned why WADA had accredited the Moscow and Sochi doping labs at the centre of the scandal.
Bach said that on his arrival on Thursday, he had gone straight to the athletes village “unshaven” to see the conditions where hundreds of plumbers have been working on water pipes following complaints from some teams.
International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach rejected suggestions at a press conference that the chaos represented a “huge failure” for the IOC.
Mutko said: “I hope that today or tomorrow all the formalities regarding letting the team (compete in Rio) will be completed”.
“If we can achieve this, then the fight against doping will have some kind of final effect”, he told RIA-Novosti news agency.
The triathlon federation said none of its six Russian athletes was mentioned in McLaren’s report or has served a ban before, and all of them have been tested by non-Russian anti-doping agencies.
American ice hockey Olympic Medallist and IIHF Athletes’ Committee Member Angela Ruggiero was elected as the new chair of the International Olympic Committee (IOC)’s Athletes’ Commission, replacing outgoing chair Claudia Bokel.
“The IOC is not responsible for the fact that different information which was offered to Wada already a couple of years ago was not followed up”.
“Therefore, the IOC can not be made responsible, neither for the timing nor for the reasons of these incidents we have to face now. just a couple of days before the Olympic Games”.
“You can not punish a human being for the failures of his or her government if he or she is not implicated”, he said.
The chief spokesman for the Rio Olympics says, “I can guarantee in the name of Rio 2016 that the athletes can compete in safety”. But Pound said he did not uncover concrete evidence that the Russian government was manipulating doping controls.
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Rio has faced criticism for shoddy construction since April, when a bike path that was hailed as a top legacy project of the Olympics collapsed, killing two people.
