“I will be undoubtedly following the developments at the Olympic Games, except for track and field competitions”, Isinbayeva said in an interview with TASS.
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Australia’s Olympic delegation presented Rio de Janeiro’s mayor, Eduardo Paes, with a toy boxing kangaroo on Wednesday as they laid to rest a spat over conditions in the Olympic Village that has marred the buildup to next month’s Games. While that means banning Russian athletes who are found positive for doping in order to protect the other worldwide contingents, it also means that Russian athletes who are clean should not be penalized for the actions of their peers.
Whistleblower and middle-distance runner Yulia Stepanova had been cleared to compete at the Games as a neutral athlete by the IAAF but was ruled out by the International Olympic Committee due to her past doping record.
Laura Zeng (rhythmic gymnastics): She became the first USA rhythmic gymnast to win a medal at an Olympic or Youth Olympic Games, taking bronze at the Nanjing 2014 Youth Olympic Games.Zeng will make her Olympic debut in Rio after winning five golds at the 2015 Pan American Games and the highest finish ever by an American at the 2015 world championships. We will have a great Olympic atmosphere here in Rio.
About 70 Russian athletes left Moscow for Brazil on Wednesday, following a farewell ceremony hosted by Russian president Vladimir Putin in the Kremlin.
“You know, we have set up a special anti-doping commission”.
Team Kenya athletes including Julius Yego, Viola Jelagat, Betsy Saina and David Rudisha pose for a selfie with President Uhuru Kenyatta on Friday, July 22, 2016.
After the launch of the global digital product, the Olympic Channel will “foster partnerships with other Olympic stakeholders, including rights-holding broadcasters and National Olympic Committees to develop localised versions of the Olympic Channel”, the IOC said.
Volleyball player Sergei Tetyukhin, a four-time Olympic medalist, will be Russia’s flagbearer for the opening ceremony in Rio, according to an Instagram post by pole vaulter Yelena Isinbayeva. We have the most tested bunch of athletes and they have passed each stage of testing placed before them.
The event will take place from August 6th-21st, from Monday to Saturday, 10:00-19:00.
At 23, the Princeton neuroscience major will make her Olympic debut in Rio.
A keen sportsman, the 63-year-old former KGB officer later bid the team good luck, calling them “winners” and promising them financial rewards if they win medals.
SAILING – World Sailing has provisionally confirmed the participation of six athletes from Russian Federation for the Games.
And earlier on Wednesday, the International Triathlon Union cleared the the three men and three women in Russia’s triathlon squad to compete.
Some Russian Olympic athletes slept a little better Sunday night.
Kenya is under world athletics governing body, the IAAF watch list over doping as the country waits to be declared compliant with the World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) Code following the verdict to outlaw the Anti-Doping Agency of Kenya in May.
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Russian entries to the Olympics must still be examined and upheld by an expert from the Court of Arbitration for Sport.
