The Court of Arbitration for Sport has set up a fast-track procedure to hear Russia’s appeal against the Olympic ban on its track and field athletes, with a ruling expected on July 21.
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Cas said it would rule on the matter by 21 July “at the latest” after agreeing to “an expedited procedure”.
An appeal will be heard on July 19 at the Lausanne-based court, with the verdict due within the next two days.
The Olympics open in Rio de Janeiro on August 5.
The ROC and the 68 athletes have specifically asked the Lausanne-based court to “order that any Russian athlete who is not now the subject of any period of ineligibility for the commission of an anti-doping rule violation may participate at the 2016 Olympic Games”, assuming they otherwise qualified. The ban was upheld by the IAAF in a vote last month.
Brilliantova said Sunday that she believed only two Russians would now fit the criteria out of more than 80 who have applied to the IAAF.
“I hope they resolve it, and the clean athletes who deserve to go to Olympics, they will go”, Kuznetsova said.
They also successfully appealed to CAS on behalf of Belarus’ Olympic hammer silver medallist Vadim Devyatovskiy to have a lifetime ban imposed by the IAAF from the sport lifted, despite him having been involved in several doping scandals during his career.
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The IAAF approved a new rule allowing Russians to apply to compete as “neutral athletes” in Rio if they can show they have been based outside the country and subject to testing from a respected, non-Russian anti-doping agency.
