Australia said on Sunday it would delay taking up residence in the Village, a development of 31 new buildings next to the Olympic Park which will house some 18,000 athletes and other team members during the Games starting 5 August.
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Disappointment at the participation of Russian athletes is evident in London, where the Guardian newspaper had published an editorial calling for an “across-the-board Russian exclusion from Rio”. The IOC executive committee decided not to ban the Russian team. “Russia’s team is the cleanest one at Rio”, he said. Apart from that, the International Olympic Committee ruled than no Russian athlete who has ever been sanctioned for doping will be allowed to take part in the Rio Olympics, even if they have served the sanction. Global sports federations must now remove any athlete previously banned for doping or who was implicated in a report commissioned by the World Anti-Doping Agency that accused Russia of a mass cover-up of failed drug tests.
CANOEING – Five Russian canoe sprint athletes have been banned from competing in Rio by the International Canoe Federation (ICF).
MODERN PENTATHLON – Maksim Kutsov and Ilia Frolov have been barred from the Olympics because of prior anti-doping offences, but three other Russians, including former world champion Aleksandr Lesun, will compete at Rio.
R-Sport reported that the Russian volleyball team had been cleared to compete at Rio.
The Kenyan team for the Rio Olympics consisting of over 60 athletes will pass the anti-doping tests without any problem, the country’s Olympic boss said. That has led to over four tests done on the athletes in the last three weeks during their training at Eldoret.
With just over a week to go until the opening ceremony at the Maracana stadium, Paes on Wednesday hailed the impact of 40 billion reais (around $12 billion) in Olympics-related investments, reports Xinhua.
The Russian track and field team had already been barred from competing in Rio by the sport’s governing body, the IAAF. That’s long jumper Darya Klishina, who having trained in the US was granted a reprieve by the IAAF earlier this month. He also accused the Russian secret service of providing active assistance with the cover-up, which he says took place before, during and after the Sochi Olympics.
“The key thing about doping is education of the athletes”.
‘We’re after medals, that’s it, ‘ handball player Anna Sen said.
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JUDO – The International Judo Federation, which lists Russian President Vladimir Putin as its honorary president, has given the green light for the 11 Russian judo competitors to take part.
