The Aftermath, Day +7: Catching Up
- Ryan Lochte has officially been charged with lying to police in Rio. However, because the maximum sentence for that is six months in Brazil -- and the extradition treaty between Brazil and the US has a minimum sentence of one year for an extradition to take place (New York Daily News), he's not going back.
- That said, and I'm not sure on this one: Since it's also a crime to similarly falsify in the United States, could Brazil convict him and a US judge sentence him (for the same crime) to the time Brazil sets, as long as it does not exceed the US sentence)?
And from
Inside the Games:
- Vitaly Mutko, the Russian Sports Minister, has blasted the WADA Report as falsified.
- The city of Sochi will gladly host the Russian Paralympians, should they remain disqualified. Russia is still protesting the decision.
- Kuwait and Kenya have both disbanded their National Olympic Committees. Kuwait's, in fact, appears to have implied law enforcement or military force! Kenya has arrested three members of it's NOC regarding some of the drug-testing controversies uncovered against Kenyan officials. (To date, unless I mentioned it and didn't remember it: No athletes are implicated.)
- Kristina Mladenovic of France blasted her country's tennis federation as "incompetent" on her Twitter account. Caroline Garcia backed her up, stating the pair (who lost a first-round doubles match in an upset) were about to be tossed from the tournament for the outfits (wrong color) that the French Federation gave them. Neither will now have to worry about playing for France anytime soon -- they've been banned from the national tennis federation for at least a month. A final decision on September 24 might effectively default the Federation's Cup (women's equivalent to the Davis Cup) final to the Czech Republic, as the two have been the biggest factors in advancing France to this championship match.
- Also suspended by the French is Benoit Paire, who defaulted his match when the French sent him home for partying too long.
- South Korea wants words with an unnamed Rio Olympian, who apparently conspired with another swimmer to put a hidden camera in the women's locker room in 2013.
- Sachin Tendulkar is effectively Sports God in India. He has had a long cricket career of great distinction. Tendulkar, as a result, was asked by the Indian government to be the person to present both Indian medalists (they won two medals in Rio) with new BMW cars, as well as the coach of the silver-medal badminton player and a gymnast who narrowly finished fourth in the women's vault. The gymnast was the first female to ever compete in the event for India, and the first Indian Olympian gymnast in over half a century!
- That said, the Indian government has commissioned a task force, effectively asking how a country of over 1 billion people could only gain two Summer Games medals. (And how to improve that number in the future.)
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