Brazil

The local organising committee for the 2016 summer Olympic Games is facing legal action from hundreds of staff who claim they have yet to be paid for their work at the event in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

The World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) has highlighted serious failings in the doping control system utilised at the 2016 summer Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, stating that only the “enormous resourcefulness and goodwill” of certain key staff prevented the platform from collapsing.

Carlos Nuzman has pledged to build on the momentum generated by Rio de Janeiro’s staging of the 2016 summer Olympic and Paralympic Games after being re-elected for a final term in office as president of the Brazilian Olympic Committee (COB).

Rio 2016 chief executive Sidney Levy has said the operating budget for the Olympic and Paralympic Games will require just under $30m (€26.9m) in public funding to meet its final obligations.

Prior to Channel 4’s coverage of the London 2012 Paralympic Games, broadcasters had treated the Paralympics like an add-on rather than the main event. Kevin Roberts speaks to Stephen Lyle, the channel’s commissioning editor for sport.

European Olympic Committees (EOC) and Olympic Council of Ireland (OCI) president Pat Hickey is set to stand trial alongside nine other executives after a Rio de Janeiro court accepted prosecutors’ charges in the case surrounding an alleged illegal ticket ring run during the summer Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.

The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) has expressed its confidence in a successful summer Paralympic Games ahead of the opening ceremony for the event in Rio de Janeiro later today (Wednesday).

European Olympic Committees (EOC) and Olympic Council of Ireland (OCI) president Pat Hickey has been formally charged alongside nine other executives in the case surrounding an alleged illegal ticket ring run during the summer Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.

The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) has said that it expects this year’s Games to sell out despite recent reports suggesting that ticket sales for the event in Rio de Janeiro were struggling.

The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) has confirmed that it will not allow individual Russian athletes to compete at the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games.

The International Volleyball Federation (FIVB) has confirmed that Brazilian clubs Sada Cruzeiro and Minas Tênis Clube will co-host its 2016 Men’s Club World Championship.

Patrick Hickey has vowed to clear his name after he was released from a Rio prison but ordered to stay in Brazil pending the outcome of an investigation into allegations that he participated in an illegal ticketing ring during the summer Olympic Games.

The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) and the Rio 2016 Organising Committee have formally lent their backing to a campaign dedicated to raising attendance at the forthcoming summer Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.

Rio de Janeiro Mayor Eduardo Paes has confirmed that the Brazilian city would be willing to step in to aid any deficit recorded by the local organising committee for the staging of the 2016 summer Olympic and Paralympic Games.

Brazilian police are sifting through emails exchanged between detained International Olympic Committee (IOC) member Patrick Hickey and Marcus Evans, the owner of hospitality company THG Sports, as they continue to investigate allegations of an illegal Olympic Games ticketing scheme.

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev and Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko have slammed today’s (Tuesday’s) decision to maintain the country’s blanket ban from the forthcoming summer Paralympic Games as politically motivated, with the Russian Paralympic Committee (RPC) set to take its case to the Swiss Supreme Court.