Olympic notes: Moroccan jailed on assault claims

Brazilian police say they have jailed a Moroccan Olympic boxer on allegations he sexually assaulted two Brazilian women.

In a statement, police say they arrested boxer Hassan Saada Friday for possible assaults on two Brazilian women who worked as waitresses in the Olympic Village.

According to the statement, the attacks happened on Wednesday. No other details were given.

Police say Saada will be jailed for a period of 15 days while they conduct a rape investigation. Under Brazilian law, suspects can be held for a long period of time while a case is examined.

Saada was due to compete Saturday. He was not predicted to be a medal contender. Kenya back in line with WADA: Kenya has been removed from the World Anti-Doping Agency’s list of “non-compliant” countries, three months after WADA described the nation’s anti-doping regulations as “a complete mess.”

WADA said in a statement late Thursday that the new anti-doping legislation introduced by Kenya’s parliament is “now deemed to be in line” with the 2015 world anti-doping code.

At least 40 Kenyan track and field athletes have failed doping tests and been banned since the 2012 Olympics and four senior officials at the Kenyan track federation have been suspended by the IAAF, track and field’s international governing body.

In May, Kenya’s testing program was declared non-compliant because of problems with how it was run. Russian rower cleared: The world rowing federation has cleared a previously banned Russian rower from competing in the Olympics but says Russia has decided to leave him at home anyway.

Ivan Podshivalov, who received a two-year doping ban in 2008, got a last-minute go-ahead to compete in Rio after a sports arbitration panel rejected a rule barring Russian athletes with prior doping sanctions from competing in the games.

However, the world rowing federation, FISA, said Friday that with the Olympics about to start the Russian rowing federation had decided to stick to its lineup in the men’s four and leave Podshivalov in Moscow.

FISA upheld the ban of another Russian rower who had been suspended in 2008, Anastasia Karabelshikova, saying she didn’t meet the criteria for competing in the games. Paris, Rome won’t give in to terror: French President François Hollande says Paris and other cities bidding to host future Olympics need to be able to protect themselves, and Hollande says France has experience in organizing and protecting major events. More than 200 people have died in France in the last 18 months in terror attacks, but Hollande said these were not attacks on major organized events like the Euro soccer tournament that was held in June and July.

Italian Premier Matteo Renzi says holding the Olympics in Rome would be an answer to terrorists trying to cower people into a “life of fear.”

Renzi said that if the terrorists “hate music, we will invest more money in music. If they hate soccer or other sports, we believe this is our identity.”

Paris and Rome are bid rivals for the 2024 Games along with Los Angeles.