“This is true, we have filed a lawsuit with CAS and are waiting for their response and will see whether we will receive it on Tuesday or not”, Syrtsov said in an interview with TASS.
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The IOC rejected the call, ruling that individual sports federations should decide whether Russian athletes are eligible to compete. “With the Azure cloud platform, Microsoft is partnering with us to deliver the secure, scalable cloud we depend on to bring the Games to millions of viewers on whichever device they prefer, via end-to-end live streaming entirely in the cloud”.
“WADA wishes to factually clarify that the Agency acted immediately on allegations concerning Russian Federation when it had corroborated evidence and the power to do so under the World Anti-Doping Code”, WADA said.
Australian Olympic officials are taking precautionary measures to protect the unnamed athletes after they fell ill in Rome ahead of their scheduled arrival in Rio de Janeiro on Monday.
The IOC session will conclude on Thursday, a day before Friday’s opening ceremony at the Maracana stadium.
“This information was subsequently corroborated by the McLaren Investigation, which also unveiled a wider implication of the Moscow (anti-doping) laboratory”.
Responding to Bach’s swipe about supervision of the Russian doping labs, WADA said its focus is on the “technical abilities” of the labs. “But the Brazilians have shown us that they are capable of dealing with these challenges, including in the short term”, Bach said at the Rio Olympic Park’s Press Centre.
The IOC said yesterday it was not responsible for this uncertainty, putting the blame squarely on WADA and its July release of the McLaren report.
Australia’s women’s team won bronze at the 2012 London Olympics and have their first preliminary match of the Games against Russian Federation on August 9.
The survey of the aquatic Olympic and Paralympic venues has revealed consistent and dangerously high levels of viruses from the pollution, a major black eye on Rio’s Olympic project that has set off alarm bells among sailors, rowers and open-water swimmers. “We think we’ve got the best ever chance, we think we’ve got the most talented team that’s ever been to an away Games”, England said.
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Saudi Arabia will send four women to the Rio de Janeiro Olympics, doubling its female participation after two women competed for the first time at the 2012 London Games.
