Rio organizers said Brazil would have necessary doping legislation in place by a March 18 deadline set by the World Anti-Doping Agency to conform with global legislation, or risk leaving a $25 million testing lab in Rio unused.
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The IOC has long provided aid to elite athletes affected by the worldwide refugee crisis, this year asking participating NOCs to identify refugee athletes with potential to qualify for the 2016 Rio Olympic Games.
So far, 43 high-performance athletes, who are also refugees, have been identified as possibly being eligible for the Games in Brazil.
It will be treated at the Olympic Games like all the other teams of the 206 National Olympic Committees (NOCs).
The team will be similar – though not completely similar – to any other team at the Olympics.
The team will be housed in the Olympic Village of athlete residences and will have an IOC-assigned entourage to meet their needs and confirm their responsibilities. Dozens of others have now been discovered in various refugee camps. “This team may end up between five and 10 athletes maybe”. International Olympic Committee (IOC) president, Thomas Bach, from Germany, left, stands next to the Member of the International Olympic Committee, IOC, Craig Reedie, from Britain, right, and International Olympic C…
Andrada explained ticket revenues had reached 74 per cent ($194 million) of the overall target. They raised almost $1 billion in ticket sales from the Olympics and Paralympics. Overall, 96% of the 8.2 million tickets were sold.
“We know that no government, no institution, no organisation is immune to these evils of corruption”, Bach said following an IOC executive committee meeting in Lausanne.
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The original French probe is directed against Lamine Diack, the president of the ruling athletics body IAAF 1999-2015 and an International Olympic Committee member until 2014, and his son Papa Massata Diack, on suspicion of bribery and money-laundering in connection with cover-ups of positive doping tests of mainly Russian athletes.
