After the World Anti-Doping Agency accused the Russian government of directing a vast doping cover-up, the International Olympic Committee said it would not allow Russians to compete in Rio if they had previously been banned for doping, were implicated in the alleged cover-up or had not been tested often enough internationally.
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The IOC will make its final decision before the Games kick off on Friday, he stressed.
All Russian athletes sanctioned for doping in the past have been barred from the Games.
Adams also stated that if the CAS ruled to overturn the International Weightlifting Federation’s blanket ban on all Russian weightlifters, the IOC would consider lifting it.
The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) was scheduled to hold an emergency session in Rio on July 31 to hear the case of swimmers Vladimir Morozov and Nikita Lobintsev, just five days before the start of the 2016 Olympics. “They should have chose to permit all athletes with spotless reputation (to the Games)” he said, specifically referring to Oleg Chen and David Berdzhanyan.
Olympics: Russia have completed their own version of the Olympics after track and field athletes were banned from competing in Rio.
The panel will consist of three executive board members: Turkey’s Ugur Erdener, chairman of the International Olympic Committee medical commission; Germany’s Claudia Bokel, head of the athletes’ commission; and Spain’s Juan Antonio Samaranch Jr., a vice president of the modern pentathlon federation.
About 70 Russian athletes left Moscow on Thursday for Rio de Janeiro to take part in the Rio 2016 Olympic Games.
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 move comes amid a doping scandal that has led to the exclusion of more than 100 Russian athletes connected to state-sponsored cheating.
Weightlifting sport has been hit by doping allegations ahead of Rio.
Lobintsev tested positive for meldonium earlier this year but was then cleared and given a “no fault” finding.
Russia’s eight weightlifting berths in the Olympics have been offered to other countries.
Any Russian who has served a doping suspension is automatically ruled out but others were also to be banned if they could not effectively “prove themselves clean”.
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“During those three months, people intruded into the apartments and a lot of things were stolen”, he told O Estado de Sao Paulo newspaper.
