“I think you can see from the great performances of the athletes that there are very good conditions; you see many personal bests”, he said on Monday.
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Adams gave out the information at a daily briefing at the Main Press Centre on Thursday, reports Xinhua.
That means if you’re not on the approved list of Olympic sponsors, then you can’t mention or say words like “Summer”, “Rio”, or even “Gold” for the duration of the Olympics or you risk having legal action taken against you.
“In the Olympic Games it’s not always only about the stars who we know already”.
Later in July, Alexander Zhukov, president of the Russian Olympic Committee, told RT that the anti-doping inquiry has been highly selective, saying “the athletes from other countries with a doping record have not been banned from the Olympics, while Russian athletes with previous records have been effectively banned from the Games”. Turkey’s Nurcan Taylan was disqualified from the women’s 48kg weightlifting event in Beijing (which she didn’t even finish); Armenian weightlifter Hripsime Khurshudyan (75kg) was disqualified from Beijing, where she placed 11th; and Pavel Kryvitski of Belarus was disqualified from London, where he placed 28th in the men’s hammer throw. “I noticed a lot of us found it hard to swim in the evenings, some of us weren’t quite awake”. “I’ll make another try”. But while the competitions in the Olympics are taking center stage, we can’t help but notice all of the advertising that is going on and thinking about how insane it all is.
Instead, the IOC gave global sports federations the authority to decide which individual Russian athletes could compete.
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However, the Russian ban was thrown out by CAS in the case of several athletes, including world champion breaststroker Yulia Efimova, who has served a 16-month suspension for doping. American swimmer Lilly King wagged her index finger in a “no, no, no” gesture after Efimova’s semifinal victory. “There is some suspicions with regard to doping, not only with regard to Russian Federation”.
