The truck they were traveling in was met by gunshots and one officer was shot in the head.
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The Justice Ministry said Vieira was recovering after four hours of surgery and was in stable condition.
A commando unit backed by a police helicopter was preparing Thursday to carry out an operation to apprehend those behind the attack.
“I told them we all respect the decisions that were made, whether it was anything around schedule, health concerns or anxious about security and that’s possibly one thing that I’ve relayed back since we’ve been down here. I feel like I don’t deserve it”, da Silva said.
Brazilian native Adilson da Silva will be the first to tee off in the Rio 2016 Olympic Games golf competition on Thursday at 7:30 am.
Fraser admitted he had benefited from an early tee time before the wind strengthened, as well the similarities between the Olympics course and those in the famous sandbelt region of Melbourne.
“It’s going to be right there alongside the major championships but not compared to”.
Nobody wants to watch an Olympian who doesn’t particularly care about being an Olympian, and if nothing else, the top men’s golfers in the field won’t need to convince anyone that this matters to them.
“Success will be measured on a number of levels”, said Peter Dawson, the president of the International Golf Federation.
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) – The first Olympics in South America.
Manuel managed to chase down Campbell down the stretch, but so did 16-year old Canadian Penny Oleksiak.
Golf, played only in 1900 and 1904 (for the record, Canada is the defending champion), was added for 2016 and Tokyo in 2020.
Schwazer briefly returned to competition after serving a three-year, nine-month ban for using EPO before the 2012 Olympics.
In Lawrie’s eyes, where a player is from and the importance of the Olympics in that country is a key factor in determining whether the game’s best will feature in future.
Knowing it was going to be a hectic year from a schedule standpoint, Stenson made the decision to skip two World Golf Championship events: the WGC-Dell Match play, two weeks prior to the Masters; and the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational, which was two weeks prior to The Open.
In rugby sevens, Fiji goes against surprising Japan and South Africa faces Great Britain, all trying to get to the evening’s gold-medal match.
The women: The women’s field was filled in the exact manner of the men’s field.
The seemingly unstoppable American Katie Ledecky is also back in the pool, this time to qualify for the 800 meter freestyle.
No one will call the Olympics a major, but the sight of either one of them winning gold would give golf as much as it could hope for in Rio: a signature moment for a prominent player.
“The fact that was the case, then you get to be really excited about the opportunity to represent Team GB”.
Other contenders in the mix to win the tournament include Rickie Fowler (+1400), Bubba Watson (+1400), Martin Kaymer (+1600), Patrick Reed (+1400), Matt Kuchar (+1600), Daniel Willett (+2200), Emiliano Grillo (+2500), and Rafael Cabrera Bello (+2800).
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The format: The IGF decided on a four-day, 72-hole stroke-play format, the kind of format you would see in any professional tournament on any worldwide tour on any weekend.
