“Our synchronized swimming team arrive [Tuesday], so I’m going to send them down to give them some hints on keeping their mouths closed under water”.
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“Just the usual precautionary measures, but moving the whole team out there, and there will be no interaction between anyone in the village and them for the next 48 hours”, Australian Olympic team’s chef de mission Kitty Chiller said.
Uplifting stories is certainly NBC’s typical Olympics focus.
More than 10,000 athletes will compete in the first Games to be held in South America. So reporters quizzed the panel on whether their Olympics coverage would, in effect, reflect the troubles that have been reported elsewhere.
He spoke to TV critics from Rio by satellite, along with executive producer Jim Bell and correspondent Mary Carillo. Organizers said no one was injured in the incident that raises further questions about the quality of construction in the Olympic host city. And then the athletes get here. “I’m not accusing anybody, but there’s a lot of non-accredited – if you like – workers, cleaners, housecleaners, and maintenance workers walking around”. “But should it be a story while we are here … we’ll cover it”.
“What we’re dealing with here is how we handle a threat to the Olympic movement caused by systematic anti-doping corruption in a particular country, state run, that’s going to require all of us to think about it”, Pound said.
“You’ve got to talk about the condition of the water”.
A South Korean road cyclist was hit by a vehicle in Rio de Janeiro during practice for the Olympic Games, police said. “In the run-up to the games, things happen”.
“While it is destabilizing in the lead-up to the Games, it is obvious, given the seriousness of the revelations that he [McLaren] uncovered, that they had to be published and acted upon without delay”, WADA President Craig Reedie, who is also an International Olympic Committee vice president, said in a statement Monday. “I don’t know why, but we like to sensationalize everything and scare people and then … when the games go on, everything goes on as planned, ends up being a handsome tournament”.
“You could make the case Zika is a bigger story in Florida than in Rio, where it is winter, and cooler and drier”, he said. “So is Disneyland responsible for bringing people to Florida now?”
The director behind City of God (2002), Fernando Meirelles, has combined with Andrucha Waddington and Daniela Thomas, who co-directed Rio’s handover segment at the London 2012 closing ceremony, to deliver an opening show.
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When Carillo chimed in that she will be helping to cover those contests, Costas asked her if she planned “to take a dip yourself”.
