IOC spokesman Mark Adams said the three-member panel will make the final decisions after the decisions made for each individual athlete by the worldwide federation for their sports have been reviewed by the Court of Arbitration for Sports.
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More than 250 Russian athletes have so far been cleared to compete.
The IOC stopped short of applying a blanket ban in a move criticised by Wada and others, while swimmers Vladimir Morozov and Nikita Lobintsev have become the first Russian athletes to appeal against their ban to the Court of Arbitration for Sport.
But the International Olympic Committee set strict criteria – including a ban of all Russian athletes sanctioned for using performance enhancing drugs in the past.
A panel of arbitrators will hear the case and issue a ruling.
They were among seven Russians banned by the International Swimming Federation (FINA) last week after the order was published.
Lobintsev and U.S.-based Morozov, were part of Russia’s bronze-medal winning 4x100m freestyle team at London 2012, while Lobintsev also won a silver medal in the 4x200m freestyle relay at Beijing 2008.
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An athlete competes in a track and field event held by Russia’s athletics federation for athletes banned from the Rio Olympics.
Stepanova’s hopes of running at the Olympics, which start next week, as an independent athlete were dashed when the International Olympic Committee ruled earlier this month that no Russian with a doping background could take part.
Stepanov, who with his 800m runner wife Yuliya Stepanova, gave details of the state-run doping program to a German documentary in 2014, said efforts to clean up sport had failed.
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“Unfortunately, doped athletes will be competing”, said the former Russian anti-doping agency (RUSADA) official, now living in hiding in the United States with his wife.
