And Matildas coach Alen Stajcic said his charges would take a traditionally aggressive Australian approach into the Olympic opener.
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Bach used his speech at Monday night’s opening ceremony of the IOC’s general assembly to address the continuing criticism of the Olympic body’s response to evidence of state-sponsored doping in Russian Federation.
With all the concern over the polluted water in Rio de Janeiro, one report says Olympic athletes and spectators should be more concerned with the air.
By this time, you probably know whether or not you’re going to Rio de Janeiro to cheer on the Olympians from your country in the upcoming 2016 Summer Olympics. It goes without saying that this situation has made the final preparations for the Olympic Games challenging.
Since then, WADA director general Olivier Niggli said, the agency “facilitated the transfer of relevant information that is available to date” about individual Russian athletes to the various worldwide federations.
“We would never, ever risk the health or the condition of any athlete for a competition”, said Mario Andrada, chief spokesman for the local organizing committee.
Emergency services detonated a backpack outside the Maracana on Sunday night while dress rehearsals were taking place for Friday’s opening ceremony.
“While it is destabilising in the lead up to the Games, it is obvious, given the seriousness of the revelations that he uncovered, that they had to be published and acted upon without delay”.
“Both of them have pretty high levels of infectious adenovirus”, said Harwood, adding that the virus could be particularly hazardous to babies and toddlers who play in the sand.
Mutko insists “there is no state system of doping in Russian Federation”. The committee also stated that Russian athletes with any doping history would not be allowed to compete in Rio, even if they had served a penalty. “We think we have got the best ever chance, we think we have got the most talented team that has ever been to an away Games and it is certainly the largest team we have taken away for over a quarter of a century since Barcelona in 1992”, he said.
“I hope that today or tomorrow all the formalities regarding letting the team (compete in Rio) will be completed”, he told RIA Novosti news agency in Paris yesterday. “And the athletes don’t run a risk sailing in Guanabara Bay”. But it does not remain a threat to the athletes.
“The athletes will compete in safety”.
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Rio’s contaminated Olympic waterways have already caused a stir as the city suffers endemic levels of gastrointestinal diseases from a lack of sewage collection.
