Meanwhile, the IOC has said a three-member IOC panel will have the final say on which Russian athletes can compete at the Rio Games, reviewing all decisions taken by the global federations.
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The IOC’s executive board met this weekend to assess final preparations in the host city and also rule on the process for approving Russian athletes put forward by their sports’ global federations (IFs).
“Both swimmers request CAS to declare the decision of the International Olympic Committee executive board of July 24 2016 invalid and unenforceable”, said a CAS statement.
Russian athletes banned from competing at the 2016 Olympic Games took part in an alternative competition in Moscow on the same day the national team left for Rio.
In the aftermath of that report, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) resisted huge pressure to impose a blanket ban on Russian Federation from the Olympics which get underway on August 5.
Russian Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko said Friday that, so far, 272 of the country’s athletes had been cleared by global federations, out of an original team of 387.
They also rebuked suggestions that a panel consisting exclusively of Executive Board members will be fully impartial, suggesting they will predominantly be confirming decisions made by the CAS arbitrators.
There had been reports that the International Olympic Committee was going to introduce the gene-doping test to its programme at next month’s Rio Games.
Neither swimmer has ever served a ban for a positive test, and both have repeatedly said they are clean athletes.
This is just another blow to the already tense Olympics preparation in Rio..
Russia’s weightlifting team was barred on Friday from participating in the Rio Olympics due to doping.
It named Russian Federation, along with Kazakhstan and Belarus, but said it would await confirmation of the positive tests from the International Olympic Committee before implementing the suspension.
Russians hoping to compete in the boxing, golf, gymnastics, handball and taekwondo are still waiting to hear from the respective federations on whether they will be banned or not.
But the Games should go on for those who didn’t cheat.
But the International Olympic Committee ruled that she should not be allowed to take part as she had previously failed a doping test.
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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.
