Russian swimmers Vladimir Morozov and Nikita Lobintsev appeal against ban

The Russian sports minister said 272 of the original 387 athletes selected to compete had been cleared to go to the games, which start 5 August.

The IWF Executive Board decided today to ban the Russian Weightlifting Federation from recommending/entering/participating with athletes and Technical Official at Rio Olympic Games 2016.

Rebryk Vira reacts as she takes a throw in the women’s javelin event during the Russian Stars 2016 track and field competitions in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, July 28, 2016.

Russia’s eight-member weightlifting team was kicked out of the games on Friday for what the worldwide federation called “extremely shocking” doping results that brought the sport into “disrepute”.

Stepanova’s hopes of running at the Olympics, which start next week, as an independent athlete where dashed when the International Olympic Committee ruled earlier this month that no Russian with a doping background could take part.

The IWF in highlighting “the extremely shocking and disappointing statistics regarding the Russian weightlifters” added that seven dope tests being re-examined from the 2008 and 2012 Olympics have returned positive results.

“I am sure that in a justice-driven system I have full right to take part in the Olympic Games”.

CAS did not say when a decision would be announced.

Two Russian swimmers have filed an appeal against their exclusion from the Rio de Janeiro Olympics.

Russian Federation says its taekwondo team has been approved to compete at the Rio Olympics against the backdrop of the country’s doping scandal.

Bach said the International Olympic Committee had set a “very high bar” by imposing strict conditions on the entry of Russians, including a ban on any athletes with prior doping sanctions.

Three Russian cyclists have been withdrawn from the Rio Games by the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC), three riders are under investigation by the sport’s world governing body and 11 are eligible to compete, the UCI said.

The panel will receive independent advice from the Court of Arbitration for Sport before making its decisions.

Boxing, golf, gymnastics, handball, taekwondo and weightlifting have yet to declare on competing athletes.

Bach said he hopes the public will “realize we did our best to address the situation in a way which allows us to protect clean athletes all over the world”.

“On Monday, I am leaving for Paris, where I will speak at the Unesco commission on doping”, he said.

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) – The Canadian lawyer who accused Russian Federation of operating a state-run doping program is facing “a deluge of requests” for information on individual athletes implicated in his investigation.