World Sailing said in a statement that it is following closely the efforts to fix the ramp.
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“What we have subsequently found is that the fire alarms had been silenced while they were carrying out maintenance on the building next door to ours”, she said.
Australian hierarchy have since triple-checked the fire alarms were working after Chiller met with Rio 2016 organisers and the International Olympic Committee.
A laptop and team shirts have been stolen from Australia’s accommodation at the Olympic athletes’ village while the building was being evacuated because of a small fire, the head of the team’s delegation at the Rio Games said Sunday.
The 28-year-old Makiba said: “People say refugees have no life, but we can show that refugees do what all people do”. “I will carry a flag of many countries”.
The risk of Zika virus infections at the Olympic Games is both low and manageable, the chief of the World Health Organization said on Friday, a week before the event kicks off in Rio de Janeiro.
The news conference was good news for the International Olympic Committee and its president Thomas Bach, as the organization finally received some praise after being battered for not imposing a blanket ban on Russia over allegations of widespread, state-sponsored doping, and for not allowing Russian whistleblower Yulia Stepanova to compete as a neutral athlete, similar to the refugees.
Yolande Mabika also fled Congo, and is also a judo athlete.
The 25-year-old butterfly and freestyle swimmer described the refugee team as a group that “does not despair”.
“Everybody in the world talks about the refugees having no major importance”, she said.
Ten refugee athletes in three different sports have been selected by the IOC to compete at the 2016 Rio Olympic Games.
The Olympic refugees are superb athletes, but no one expects a medal from them.
Chiller said the team received a certificate two days ago to say the building complied with fire standards. “Each one of us had our own personal stories to tell”, she says. “I hope you’re going to learn from our story: That you have to move on, because life will never stop for your problems”. Anis fled Syria in 2011 to avoid being enlisted into the army, relocating to Belgium from Istanbul in October previous year. The flight was the first of nine over the Olympic period bringing in horses that will compete in dressage, jumping and eventing. “We are representing people who have lost their human rights and are facing injustices”.
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“I didn’t manage to compete because our coach abandoned us”, she told reporters on Saturday.
