A truck sprays insecticide around Olympic media accomodations as part of preventive measures against the Zika virus and other mosquito-borne diseases, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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Count Reid Priddy, the veteran of the US men’s volleyball team, among those happy to see Russian Federation back to defend their gold medal at the Rio Olympics despite a doping scandal that sparked calls for a blanket ban.
WADA and Bach have been at odds since the agency publicly recommended that the IOC impose a total ban on Russia’s Olympic team following McLaren’s report detailing state-directed doping across more than two dozen winter and summer sports.
Bach said “justice has to be independent from politics” and added that “whoever responds to a violation of the law with another violation of the law is destroying justice”.
On Sunday, Bach defended the IOC’s decision not to ban the entire Russian delegation, and said the International Olympic Committee was not responsible for the timing of the latest WADA report, which came out on July 18. “Unfortunately Rio de Janeiro missed the opportunity, maybe the last big opportunity” to clean it up.
Russian Federation won a five-set thriller over Brazil in the final of the 2012 London Olympics to capture their first gold in 32 years.
Angela Ruggiero was a member of the U.S. Olympic women’s hockey team in 1998, 2002, 2006 and 2010.
Los Angeles is competing against Paris, Rome and Budapest, Hungary. At those concentrations, swimmers and athletes who ingest just three teaspoons of water are nearly certain to be infected with viruses that can cause stomach and respiratory illnesses and more rarely heart and brain inflammation – although whether they actually fall ill depends on a series of factors including the strength of the individual’s immune system.
“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.
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APPHOTO XFD304: In this July 11, 2016 photo, doctoral candidate Rodrigo Staggemeier shows samples of water and sand from Copacabana Beach, collected for a study commissioned by The Associated Press, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. A 16-month review of the aquatic Olympic and Paralympic venues has revealed consistent and dangerously high levels of illness-causing viruses from the human sewage pollution that has become a major black eye on Rio’s Olympic project and set off alarm bells among sailors, rowers and open-water swimmers.
