Official questioned in scalping case

Rio police expected to meet two other Ireland executives.

Police in Rio de Janeiro have begun interrogating the first of three of Ireland’s top Olympic executives in a ticket-scalping investigation.

Secretary General Dermot Henihan was seen arriving at Rio’s police headquarters Tuesday. Team leader Kevin Kilty and chief executive Stephen Martin are also expected.

Chief investigator Ronaldo Oliveira said the three agreed to answer questions after their passports, phones and laptops were recently seized in an Olympic Village raid.

Olympic Council of Ireland President Patrick Hickey was arrested last week and is being held in Rio’s Bangu prison complex as the investigation expands.

Authorities say the company Pro 10 Sports Management was created to facilitate the transfer of tickets between the Irish Olympic Committee and an unauthorized vendor who would sell them for high fees disguised as hospitality services.

Russian scandal: Russia’s Paralympic team was barred from the games in Rio de Janeiro as punishment for a state-backed doping program.

Sport’s highest court upheld a decision by the International Paralympic Committee to exclude the sports superpower. It was a step the IOC declined to take when it had the chance last month.

The 267 entries earned by Russian Paralympic athletes in 18 sports will be allocated to other nations for the Sept. 7-18 games.

Russia won 36 gold medals at the 2012 Paralympics, second-most in London, and was a runaway table-topping leader at its home 2014 Winter Paralympics.

The Sochi Games and Winter Paralympics are now notorious for results corrupted by state-funded agencies plotting to swap tainted doping samples from Russian athletes for clean ones at official testing laboratories.

CAS dismissed the Russian Paralympic Committee’s appeal against exclusion from competing in Rio after a hearing was held in Brazil on Monday.