Brazil's Supreme Court "opened an investigation into former Rio de Janeiro Mayor Eduardo Paes, who is accused of taking millions of dollars in bribes for contracts related to last year's Olympic Games," court documents showed on Wednesday. The accusations came from plea bargain testimony by former execs at engineering group Odebrecht that the court planned to release on Wednesday after Justice Edson Fachin opened cases against "nearly 100 politicians" on Tuesday. One exec "testified and provided corroborating documents" to show Paes solicited payments of more than R$15M in '12 "in return for Olympic contracts," according to the court (REUTERS, 4/12).
FINA "wants to add 10 events to the schedule" for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. The proposal includes 50m races in the butterfly, backstroke and breaststroke, a men's 800m freestyle, a women's 1,500m freestyle and "perhaps most intriguing," two mixed-gender relays, a 4×100m freestyle and a 4×100m medley (WASHINGTON POST, 4/11).
Goalball UK is "hopeful its elite teams will compete" at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics after donations totaling £350,000 ($437,000) from a private backer. The donor, who wants to remain anonymous, "contributed the money over the past four years." Goalball was one of seven sports to lose UK Sport funding in February (BBC, 4/12).
