The three-person panel comprises Ugur Erdener, president of World Archery and head of the IOC medical and scientific commission, Claudia Bokel of the IOC athletes commission, and Spanish IOC member Juan Antonio Samaranch Jr, son of the ex-IOC president of the same name.
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Cas has set up a base in Rio for the Games, and Morozov and Lobintsev have become the first athletes to bring cases there. The IOC’s ruling executive board, met on Saturday for the final time before the opening of the Games next Friday, said the panel will decide on the entry of Russian athletes whose names have been forwarded to compete by their global sports federations and approved by an independent arbitrator.
The governing body for each sport is to check athletes, who can also appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (ICAS).
CAS said the swimmers appealed that the International Olympic Committee ruling should be thrown out because it is “invalid and unenforceable”.
They were among seven Russians banned by the International Swimming Federation (FINA) last week after the order was published.
Lobintsev won a bronze medal at the 2012 London Games in the 4×100 freestyle relay.
Morozov said in a letter to FINA president Julio Maglione this week that he had never failed a drug test by Russian and global experts.
The Chinese company is set to operate the system for the duration of the Games to ensure everything goes smoothly.
WADA president Craig Reedie, who called for a complete ban on Russian athletes in Rio, is to address the International Olympic Committee meeting on Sunday. More than 100, however, have been barred – including the track and field team banned by the IAAF and more than 30 other athletes rejected under new International Olympic Committee eligibility criteria.
Athletics was the first sport touched by the doping controversy.
Less than a week before the opening of the Olympics, IOC leaders will meet in Rio de Janeiro this weekend to review the final preparations for the games and deal with the fallout from the doping scandal that has led to the exclusion of more than 100 Russian athletes.
The IOC executive board decided last Sunday not to ban the entire Russian Olympic team from the Games, but it ordered all individual sports federations to apply new criteria to decide which athletes could be allowed to compete.
“It has always been the case in the Olympics”.
Interim Brazilian President Michel Temer inaugurated a much-anticipated subway line in Rio de Janeiro ahead of the Olympics Games slated to begin on August 5.
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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.
