Wishing great success to the Indian contingent ahead of the opening ceremony of the Rio Olympics, Congress President Sonia Gandhi on Friday asserted that the entire country will be watching the games with keen interest adding that her thoughts and prayers will be with all Indian players.
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They come in the form of Cypriot weightlifter Antonis Martasidis, as well as an unconfirmed Greek competitor.
He was notified of his failure just ours after his arrival here and had his accreditation stripped.
Martasidis, who had been due to compete in the men’s under 85 kilograms competition, failed a drugs tests in Athens on July 25.
The unidentified Greek competitor’s A sample tested positive for banned substances in a pre-Games test also conducted in July in Athens and the athlete has left the Olympic village.
The Greek newspaper Kathimerini speculated that the athlete is swimmer Theodora Giareni, who has won a silver medal at the the 2013 Mediterranean Games, and competed in London’s 2012 Olympics.
The Irish Examiner stated that O’Reilly has not requested the testing of a B-sample, but has instead chosen to go straight to an appeal.
Poland will be represented by 245 athletes at the games, according to the Polish Olympic Committee.
The BOA said in a statement: “A small number of bags – nine from a total of almost 3,000 pieces of luggage – are now unaccounted for following their transfer from Belo Horizonte to the Olympic Village in Rio”.
An HOC official told Reuters the test had been conducted on July 5 and the athlete was on the way back to Greece.
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He said neither the name of the athlete nor the sport would be made public until the B-sample had been tested or the athlete waived the right for the second test.
