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Olympic Notes: Golf Expected To Retain Olympic Status, Confirmation To Come In '17

Golf is expected to retain its Olympic status "despite the negative publicity that preceded its return to the Games for the first time in 112 years." Confirmation that the sport will remain part of the Games until '24 at least "should come early in the new year." A source at the IOC said that it would be “very surprising” if golf is not afforded an extended run. The IOC meets early next year for a standard review and to announce what sports will be featured in the 2024 Games (IRISH TIMES, 11/21).

Int'l Swimming Federation (FINA) President Julio Cesar Maglione said that the new aquatics center being built for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics "will experience none of the problems faced by organizers of this year's Rio de Janeiro Games." The swimming pool in Rio was "plagued by construction delays, and made headlines around the world after the water turned a shade of green during the Games." Maglione said, "I visited the place where they are beginning to build the new swimming pool and ... it will have all the requirements for an excellent championship because the last condition in Rio was different" (REUTERS, 11/21).

The IOC announced that Russia's Yuliya Zaripova "has been stripped" of the Gold Medal she won in the women's 3,000m steeplechase at the 2012 London Olympics. Zaripova, who tested positive for turinabol, "was among 12 athletes, including seven medalists, who were disqualified from their events following re-testing of samples." Zaripova had been "widely expected to lose the medal after she was banned for two-and-a-half years by Russian anti-doping agency RUSADA" in Jan. '15 after her biological passport showed abnormalities (REUTERS, 11/21).

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