On Friday a small fire broke out in the basement of the building, which forced an evacuation, during which a laptop and team shirts were stolen.
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The World Anti-Doping Agency fired back on Monday, a day after IOC President Thomas Bach suggested the agency was to blame for the last-minute chaos over the participation of Russian athletes in the Rio de Janeiro Games.
The split between Olympic leaders and global anti-doping officials over the Russian doping scandal continues to deepen.
CAS published a press release Monday giving updates on a number of appeals registered recently, noting that it has registered 11 cases since July 26 – that’s more applications for CAS decisions in the past week than CAS received in the entire period of the 2012 Olympics, CAS says. “Justice has to be independent from politics”.
On July 24, the IOC placed the burden on worldwide sports federations to determine if Russian athletes should be allowed to compete in Rio.
An investigation by Canadian lawyer Richard McLaren which revealed state-organised doping in Russian Federation has overshadowed the buildup to the Rio Games which start Friday.
Asked about the divisions with the International Olympic Committee, he said: “Most of us will get over this. On the other hand, we can not deprive an athlete of the human right to be given the opportunity to prove his or her innocence”.
“You can not punish a human being for the failures of his or her government if he or she is not implicated. These principles are now being implemented”, he added.
On Sunday, Bach criticised WADA for the timing of the McLaren report, and also its oversight of Russia’s anti-doping laboratories.
The swimmers were implicated in a report by World Anti-Doping Agency investigator Richard McLaren that detailed state-sponsored doping in Russian Federation across more than two dozen summer and winter sports.
“If proven true, such a contemptuous system of doping is an unprecedented attack on the integrity of sport and on the Olympic Games”, Bach said.
Partnerships with broadcasters in more than 60 countries, including the BBC (UK), America Movil (Latin America excluding Brazil), NHK (Japan) will also make event highlights possible via YouTube from select broadcasters in more than 60 countries, as well as mobile live streams from 15 YouTube Creators chosen to cover the games.
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The local organising committee did not respond to multiple requests for comment, though it has previously said bacterial testing conducted by Rio state authorities has shown the aquatic venues to be within state guidelines.
