Russian swimmers Vladimir Morozov and Nikita Lobintsev have launched an appeal against the ruling banning them from next month’s Rio Olympic Games even though they have never failed a doping test.
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Adams said the process would be completed by August 5, the day the 2016 Olympics open in Rio de Janeiro.
The IOC decided on July 24 against banning all Russian athletes over the state-sponsored doping program, leaving the decision about each athlete up to their sport’s global federation.
Morozov and Lobintsev have called on the Court to declare that the IOC’s strict criteria for all Russian athletes is “invalid and unenforceable”.
The two swimmers were suspended after they were named in relation to the “disappearing positives” revelations – false reporting of positive samples – in a World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA)-led independent report into doping in Russian Federation.
“This panel will decide whether to accept or reject that final proposal” by CAS, Adams said.
But the International Olympic Committee set strict criteria – including a ban of all Russian athletes sanctioned for using performance enhancing drugs in the past.
Whistleblower Yulia Stepanova, who helped expose state-backed doping in Russian sports and has fled the country, asked again on Saturday for the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to reassess her exclusion from the Rio Games.
Morozov, a member of the 4x100m freestyle relay team that took bronze at the 2012 London Games, and Lobintsev, who took silver in the 4x200m freestyle team in Beijing in 2008 and bronze in the 4x100m freestyle in London, have taken their action against the International Olympic Committee and Fina.
Russias eight-strong Olympic Games weightlifting team was banned from the Rio Games in the latest doping-related blow to the sporting powerhouse.
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McLaren said his investigation did find evidence of individual athletes whose urine samples were part of the doping system and he had shared their names with WADA.
