CAS did not say when a decision would be announced.
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Morozov filed his appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport on Saturday, the sources said.
The IFs were left to decide on athletes’ eligibility after the International Olympic Committee decided against imposing a blanket ban on Russian Federation following the McLaren Report into state-run doping in the country.
Rio de Janeiro: London Olympics bronze medalist Vladimir Morozov on Saturday became the first athlete to appeal to the global sports tribunal against a ban on competing at the Rio Games ordered by the worldwide Olympic Committee, sports sources said. The IOC is still in shock over attacks for not ordering a blanket ban on Russian athletes following an inquiry by Canadian lawyer Richard McLean for the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA).
The Canadian lawyer who accused Russian Federation of operating a state-run doping program is facing “a deluge of requests” for information on individual athletes implicated in his investigation. Russia’s sports minister said today that the national team to compete in the Rio Olympics starting next week so far has 266 competitors, although decisions were still pending on several athletes.
About 110 Russian athletes have been banned by their sports federation, usually for past doping violations or other evidence they took illegal substances. Boxing, golf, gymnastics, handball and taekwondo still must publicly confirm their decisions on what to do with the athletes in those sports.
International Olympic Committee spokesman Mark Adams says the panel will decide on the entry of the Russian athletes who have been put forward by individual sports federations and approved by an independent arbitrator.
A CAS statement said Morozov and Lobintsev had asked the body to rule as “invalid and unenforceable” the key section of the International Olympic Committee executive board’s ruling that specified nobody implicated in the McLaren report should be accepted for entry into the Olympics.
The IOC has said any Russian athlete with a doping past, including Stepanova, would not be allowed to compete in Rio as it tightened controls following the fallout from the doping scandal involving their country.
They were among seven Russians banned by the International Swimming Federation (FINA) last week after the order was published.
“In the end you will see a fantastic Olympic Village and great games”, he said. “There has never been a clean Olympics and there is no reason to believe that Rio will be clean”, he told O Estado de Sao Paulo newspaper.
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All Russian athletes sanctioned for doping in the past have been excluded from the Games.
