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CAS said in a statement the hearings would
begin on Monday in Geneva and run into the weekend, with
verdicts being issued sometime the following week.
CAS said it received applications from 42 of the 43 Russians who
were banned by the IOC Disciplinary Commission and that the
cases involving three biathletes had been suspended and would
not be heard next week.
Maxim Belugin, part of the two and four-man bobsleigh teams
which finished fourth at Sochi 2014, is the only banned athlete
not to have lodged an appeal.
Grigory Rodchenkov, Russia's former anti-doping chief who turned
whistleblower, and Richard McLaren, the Canadian sports lawyer
who sat on the independent commission that exposed doping and
corruption in Russian athletics, are expected to testify by
video or telephone.
The athletes were among 42 disqualified from events, banned from
participating in future Olympics and in some cases stripped of
their medals following the International Olympic Committee's
investigation of widespread doping in Sochi exposed by an
independent report for the World Anti-Doping Agency.
The IOC last month banned Russia from the Feb. 9-25 Pyeongchang
Games as a result of its "unprecedented systematic manipulation"
of the anti-doping system, though individual athletes will be
able to compete effectively as neutrals if they can prove their
anti-doping credentials.
(Reporting by Frank Pingue in Toronto; Editing by Peter
Rutherford)
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