Curvy Brazilian women inspire medal design
Rio de Janeiro: If Rio residents think the curvy ancient Greek goddess stamped on the Olympics medals looks familiar, they wouldn’t be wrong: she’s modeled on Brazilian women. “Rio de Janeiro is a city full of curves in the sea and hills, just like the body of the Brazilian woman,” said sculptor Nelson Carneiro, 60, who created 5,130 bronze, silver and gold medals at the national mint, called Casa da Moeda, near Rio de Janeiro. Carneiro says the sensuous side of the city inspired his depiction on the medals of the Greek goddess Nike ahead of the Summer Games starting August 5. “I gave Nike curves. I gave her bigger thighs and hips,” he said.
Bolt ready for return to 200m
London: Usain Bolt insists he is ready for his first 200m of the season in the Anniversary Games in London on Friday as the star sprinter tests his fitness ahead of the Rio Olympics. Bolt faces a key stage of his fitness recovery when he races for the first time since pulling out of the Jamaican trials with a hamstring strain. “I’m good, I’m feeling good, been training good now, I’m happy with where I am,” Bolt said. “My hamstring is good, I have no issue right now.”
Russian Olympics ban upheld by CAS
Lausanne/Moscow: Sport’s highest tribunal rejected Russia’s appeal against a doping ban for its entire athletics team from the Rio Olympics, drawing swift and angry condemnation from Moscow. The decision by the Swiss-based Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) increases the possibility that the International Olympic Committee (IOC) will now exclude Russia from all sports, not just track and field, in Rio de Janeiro. That would mark the deepest crisis in the Olympic movement since the US and Soviet boycotts of the 1980s, and would be a grave blow to a nation that prides itself on its status as a sporting superpower.
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