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It's time for the Olympics! NBA basketball player Tony Parker arrived in Rio de Janeiro on Wednesday, alongside both the Mens and Womens French Olympic basketball teams. The San Antonio Spurs star will lead the French Mens team in the 2016 Rio Olympics, and French supporters have high hopes for the decorated NBA player to lead their team to victory in the Olympic tournament.
If you happen to be flying over Italy's Verona region, you might see a giant work of art in honor of the Rio Olympics from the sky. "Land artist" Dario Gambarin paid tribute to the upcoming Olympics in Rio on Tuesday, by carving a huge earth mural in a field that stretches for nearly 600 feet. The artwork depicts Rio's Christ the Redeemer statue holding five Olympic rings just in time for the Rio Olympics opening ceremony on August 6.
Famed boxing promoter Don King talked to the press briefly on the sidelines of the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Ohio, Tuesday. King stated that he supports Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump because "we will create a whole new system, we will take this system apart. America first, and we are going to make America great again. Nothing else but that.
Speaking in Moscow on Tuesday, Russian Minister of Sports Vitali Mutko commented on the World Anti-Doping Agency's report which alleges to have uncovered state-sponsored doping programmes for Russian athletes at the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics. He slammed WADA, saying that it became a "punitive organisation" and it "places itself above the movement: it dictates the rules, it extends the lists and includes an endless amount of medication into the lists, it doesn't care about athletes, about their health".
Professor Richard McLaren presented the findings of his World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) commissioned report into allegations of Russian state sponsored doping at a conference in Toronto on Monday. He described the methodology allegedly used by Russian authorities to cover up doping by the country's athletes at the Sochi Winter Olympics in 2014.