A suspected discarded cigarette in the “smoke-free” Rio Olympics village has sparked new tension between the Australian team and local officials after a fire forced athletes to evacuate the Australian quarters.
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After competing in the men’s 800m, he hopes to return to Malakal, South Sudan’s second largest town, undeterred by reports of army and rebel forces mobilising.
Stelberto Soares, a municipal engineer who has worked on Rio sanitation issues for decades, said that the government’s efforts to clean the waters were superficial at best.
US runner Allyson Felix says she expects to be close to 100 percent when 400-meter qualifying begins on August 13th.
The Rio Olympic Games get underway this coming Friday.
Two-time Olympic pole vault champion Yelena Isinbayeva says she has been refused after pleading with the IAAF to allow her to compete at the Rio Olympics.
Mabika is focussed on the Games now, but for her, and the rest of the team, these Olympics are more than just sport; “This is not just a struggle for sport, it is a struggle for life”.
The International Olympic Committee announced the selection of 10 refugees last month forming the first-ever Refugee Olympic Athletes team.
Tests conducted by the Russian anti-doping agency, which is suspended following repeated allegations of cover-ups, are not considered valid for Olympic purposes.
Popole Misenga at a training session at the Reacao Institute in Rio De Janeiro. “Normally it takes between two to five years to make a good athlete”, Domongole said proudly.
18 year old Yusra Mardini fled Damascus last year with her sister claiming refugee status in Germany.
“They can try to block big items like sofas and dead bodies, but these rivers are pure sludge”, he said, “so the bacteria and viruses are going to just pass through”.
IOC 2016 Olympics refugees team members run along a dirt road at a high altitude training camp, at the foot of the Ngong’ hills.
The full International Olympic Committee will hold a three-day session next week, starting Tuesday.
There were two open spots for sports in the 2016 Games.
The eight competition spots have been offered to other countries.
On August 5, organizers will hope to put all those various problems behind them when athletes from across the world march into the Maracana Stadium for the Opening Ceremony and the lighting of the Olympic cauldron. He still talks of competing for his country of birth – maybe at the next Olympics.
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The costs born by the athletes as they prepared and qualified for the Rio games were covered by the IOC.
