Irish trio free to go

Olympics: A Rio de Janeiro court will return the passports of three members of the Olympic Council of Ireland (OCI) and they will be allowed to leave Brazil, a source in the Rio state security services said yesterday. The passports were seized by Brazilian police, along with computers, mobile phones and unused tickets as part of an investigation into allegations of an illegal Olympics ticketing scam. Pat Hickey, former head of Ireland’s Olympic council is still being held in a Rio prison.