Russian athletes

The court is expected to hold a hearing on those cases on Thursday, the day preliminary competition begins at the Olympics.

Russian athletes have been banned from competing at the Rio 2016 Paralympics following the country's doping scandal.

About 270 Russian athletes have been cleared to compete at the summer Olympics in Rio, according to the head of Russia’s Olympic Committee, Aleksandr Zhukov.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) had nothing to do with the timing and reasons for the publication of the World Anti-Doping Agency’s McLaren report, which led to over a hundred Russian athletes being banned from the Olympics, IOC president Thomas Bach said.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) says a three-person panel will have the final say on which Russian athletes can compete at the Rio Games.

Russian athletes and coaches rejoiced after the International Olympic Committee refused to impose a blanket ban on Team Russia from the Rio Games over the doping scandal and allowed individual sports federations to make decisions.

The International Olympic Committee has rejected calls for a blanket ban on Russia at the Rio 2016 Games, ruling that individual sports federations should decide whether Russian athletes are eligible to compete.