FOUR- YEAR DOPING BAN CONFIRMED FOR POLISH WEIGHTLIFTER
PUERTO Princesa City bagged the overall championship title in the recently concluded Mindoro Marinduque Palawan Romblon ( MIMAROPA) Regional Athletics Association competition on Friday at the newly opened Occidental Mindoro Sports Complex in Bagong Sikat, San Jose, Occidental Mindoro. In elementary level, Puerto Princesa won a total of 35 gold, 34 silver and 23 bronze medals followed by Oriental Mindoro ( 34, 28, 25) and Occidental Mindoro ( 32, 33, 30). In high school level, Puerto Princesa
Polish weightlifter Tomasz Zielinski on Friday lost his appeal against a four- year doping ban imposed following a failed drugs test before the 2016 Rio Olympics, the Court of Arbitration for Sport ( CAS) announced. Zielinski tested positive for banned steroid nandrolone on the eve of the Games where he was due to compete in the 94kg category. His brother Adrian, the gold medallist at the 2012 Olympics in London in the 85kg class, tested positive for the same substance before Rio and was also sanctioned. Tomasz Zielinski, 27, was European champion in 2016. His suspension took effect from August 9, 2016. PARIS: Barely six months after Paris was picked to host the 2024 Olympics and more than six years before those Games are scheduled to open, French budgetary watchdogs are warning of cost overruns. To prevent what one French economist, Wladimir Andreff, called “the curse of the victorious bid” French authorities are already scrutinising plans to ensure that Paris holds as closely as possible to its 6.8 billion euro ($ 7.9 billion) budget and, in particular, does not exceed the 1.5 billion euros the government has promised to contribute. The Olympic price tag has long had a habit of growing. A study of host cities by the Said Business School at the University of Oxford said the Games have “the highest average cost overrun of any type of mega- project.”